City Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Ashwin Vasan announced new vending machines that will distribute free items like crack pipes and Narcan to addicts. Gregory P. Mango New York averages eight ...

Soon after our story was posted Friday, KPIX 5 received a flurry of phone calls and emails from city officials denouncing the idea to distribute the crack pipes. Mayor Ed Lee was first with a ...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday denied that taxpayer dollars are being used to fund safe-smoking kits that include crack pipes. "No federal funding has gone to it," Psaki said during ...

(WJW) — A program designed to help communities with those battling substance abuse is making headlines after some media outlets reported the Biden administration was handing out free crack pipes.

The Washington Free Beacon is pushing back against fact-checkers and the White House after they dismissed a February report from the outlet that claimed government funding could be providing “free ...

City officials’ new drug-themed vending machine is a huge hit with local addicts — who wasted no time cleaning it out overnight as they stocked up on its free crack pipes, lip balm and Narcan. “Yes, I ...

Crack started rocking America in the 1980s. The form of cocaine, which provides a brief, intense high, peaked in popularity by the end of that decade, but big cities are still struggling with the ...

LOS ANGELES — Are you a junkie in Skid Row who just got a bag of crack or fentanyl, but have no pipe to smoke it in? Don’t worry: local nonprofit organizations will hand you a brand-new crack pipe ...

The Los Angeles County government is handing out free pipes for smoking crack, methamphetamine and opioids as a part of its effort to reduce drug overdoses, according to a report. The pipes are being ...