ëCrack babyí study ends with unexpected result

ëCrack babyí study ends with unexpected result
A crack epidemic was raging in Philadelphia in 1989 when Hallam Hurt, then chair of neonatology at Albert Einstein Medical Center on North Broad Street, began a study to evaluate the effects of in-utero cocaine exposure on babies. In maternity wards in … Read more on The South Florida Times

Rape suspect awaits dangerousness hearing
According to prosecutors, Vega picked up a 34-year-old homeless woman in Roxbury's Dudley Square between midnight and 1 a.m. Saturday and said that he would get her a motel room for the night. Instead, he began driving away from the city and told the … Read more on Boston Globe

"All there is now is crackhouses and churches"
He was trying to get clean now, but when he was using, he would snort a bundle of powdered heroin every day, along with a couple of eight-balls of coke, and would take ten or 20 Xanax, two or three fifths of vodka, maybe ten 40-ounces of malt liquor … Read more on New Statesman