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Baltimore City won millions in settlements and awards after taking on pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid ...
City officials rolled out Mayor Brandon Scott’s plan to tackle the city’s opioid crisis, shortly before Thursday’s suspected ...
"Some people they be fighting the process. For one, they being traumatized while they out here on Earth," he said. “We have ...
Baltimore’s 2020 opioid-overdose fatality figure is more than two-and-a-half times the number of homicides in the city – 335 – in the same year. Yet, individual or collective opioid-related ...
The mass casualty event in Penn North that saw at least 25 people hospitalized on Thursday underscored the persistence of ...
Baltimore Police raided what they described as an open-air drug market located around the corner from last week’s mass ...
Baltimore City community partners handed out Narcan after more than two dozen people were hospitalized from a suspected drug ...
Baltimore averaged around two opioid-related overdose deaths a day last year — an inordinately high number for a city of just over 622,000. City health officials, however, say that number could ...
Thursday's mass overdose incident was a stark reminder that despite ongoing efforts, the opioid crisis is still ongoing in ...
In recent years, fatal drug overdoses have skyrocketed across the United States. Of all the major American cities where the opioid crisis has unfolded, Baltimore stands apart.
An unusually large number of overdoses sent crews searching alleys and homes for victims. Officials have not said what type ...
With overdose deaths from opioids on the rise across the country, Baltimore has begun training everyday citizens to use a life-saving antidote as one tool to combat the crisis, and the approach is ...