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Belinda Barksdale of Bmore POWER, a harm reduction and opioid education group, demonstrates how to use a fentanyl test strip at a distribution event Wednesday, September 11, 2019, at Northeast Market in Baltimore. Cocaine-related deaths have spiked in recent years, due in large part to the proliferation of fentanyl, state health department figures show. (Capital News Service/Ian Round)
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Annual cocaine overdose deaths on rise in Maryland

Despite some good news from the first quarter of this year, cocaine-related deaths have skyrocketed annually in Maryland since 2015, with nearly half of those occurring in Baltimore. The vast majority of those deaths — 82%, according to the Maryland Department of Health — involved fentanyl, a powerful and dangerous synthetic opioid.