After a noteworthy decline in opioid-related deaths in 2019, preliminary data from 2020 reveals a dramatic increase in deaths linked with opioids, particularly fentanyl, according to the Opioid Operational Command Center annual report. Officials blame the coronavirus pandemic.
Small businesses feel impacts of the opioid epidemic
DUNDALK, Maryland – In a quiet suburb outside Baltimore, down the street from a church and walking distance from a grocery store, one white house is not like the rest. Inside, positive messages cover the walls and sobriety coins hang…
State legislation to counter opioid epidemic leads panel to revisit recovery schools
A fire led to the eventual end of Phoenix — a groundbreaking Maryland public school program for children with addiction that closed in 2012 — but the state could see institutions like it rise again from the ashes.
Illicit-drug use OK in ‘safe’ site under Maryland bill
By HANNAH KLARNER Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Illegal-drug users in Maryland could partake in recreational use under a bill that would create legal, sanitary illicit-drug use facilities in the state. The bill, proposed by Delegate Dan…
Maryland joins suit against recovery-drug maker as opioid overdoses rise
Health department reports more than 900 opioid-related deaths in Maryland for the first half of this year — a large jump.
Rural detention center tests new drug to combat addiction
A western Maryland detention center is the first in the country to use a new drug…to combat drug addiction.