Woman is indicted on murder charges, for the death of her newborn baby.  He died three hours after she gave birth to him, as a result of her cocaine use while pregnant. 

Mother places crack cocaine and pills in her toddler's jacket pocket before attempting to escort him out of the house during a raid. 

Police discovered a four-year-old boy who had eaten cocaine, thinking it was icing when they investigated a prostitution call.  

According to WDAF TV Fox 4, a Missouri police officer was arrested after he was found with what authorities believe to be cocaine. The drug was found in his personal vehicle, but he was still in uniform. He faces one count of felony drug possession, and is being held in lieu a $7,500 cash bond. [...]

Last week, Parisian police arrested a couple on charges of supplying their two kids with cocaine, after their daughter was treated at a local hospital for convulsions. Their daughter is 2 and half, while their son is only 4 years old. The parents are considered upstanding Parisian citizens; the father is a pharmacist and the [...]

Ugandan authorities claim Amazing Race producer, Jeff Rice, of a cocaine overdose after doctors found high concentrations of the drug in his stomach. Jeff Rice was found dead in his hotel room in Uganda, with his production assistant in critical condition. There was no sign of attack, and this is being treated as a suspected [...]

Yale research finds that when an adolescent is first exposed to cocaine, their brain launches a strong defensive reaction designed to minimize the drug’s effect. According to Health News, the Yale team identified key genes that regulate this response, showing that interring with this response dramatically reduced a mouse’s sensitivity to cocaine. These findings may [...]

A teen tells police and customs officials that he swallowed bags of cocaine. According to ThisIsNottingham.com, police officers did not believe his claims and failed to send him to the hospital. 19-year-old Reece Staples died in 2009, after smuggling cocaine from Costa Rica. Staples went to Costa Rica with his girlfriend, and swallowed 19 bags [...]

Montana school teacher disappeared after a pre-dawn run last week. The only clue left behind was one of her running shoes. Acting on a tip from one man’s girlfriend, police arrested two men and charged them with aggravated kidnapping in conjunction with Sherry Arnold’s disappearance. According to MSNBC, one man confessed to police, spilling the [...]

According to Toronto Sun, a mother kept her children living in squalor, exposing her children to crack cocaine. The toddlers ingested crack, and they are still suffering from the effects. Attorney Laura Bird states that it is amazing that these kids did not suffer any more serious injuries, living in such deplorable conditions. ”They were [...]

An American student aroused suspicion from New Zealand border. He had been there three times in six months, and arrived with little money and no real plan of what he wanted to do in the country. He was taken to a security area, where he became agitated and uncooperative. When they looked through his bag, [...]

Lawmakers in 26 states have proposed bills in regards to the growing problem of synthetic bath salts abuse. Some states are seeking to ban them, while others are trying to add it to the list of controlled substances and make possession illegal. Bath Salts are just one of the many synthetic drugs that have recently [...]

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Charred bundles of plastic containers commonly used to carry cocaine along with human remains , have been found in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in a remote area of the Dominican Republic. U.S officials believe that about 1/10th of the cocaine that travels to the U.S. and [...]

Yesterday morning, a couple dropped their child off at daycare, along with a bag of crack cocaine. According to PennLive.com, the couple later returned to the daycare and were seen trying to locate the drugs. Surveillance video shows the bag of crack fell from a parent’s pocket while they dropped their child off.