News

Baltimore City won millions in settlements and awards after taking on pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid ...
The mass casualty event in Penn North that saw at least 25 people hospitalized on Thursday underscored the persistence of ...
Following a mass overdose event in Baltimore earlier this week, the City of Frederick is coordinating with state and local ...
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 ...
City officials rolled out Mayor Brandon Scott’s plan to tackle the city’s opioid crisis, shortly before Thursday’s suspected ...
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 ...
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.
The 21217 ZIP code, which encompasses the Penn North neighborhood where Thursday’s overdoses took place, was by far the ...