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Overdose cases in the city continue to decline after a significant drop last year, most of which are related to mounting ...
City data shows that more 911 calls for overdoses were placed in Baltimore on Thursday, the day of a mass overdose event that sent more than two dozen people to hospitals, than on any other day this ...
A week has passed since a mass overdose incident at Penn North sent 27 people to local hospitals and put city officials on ...
None of the 27 people who overdosed on a suspected bad batch of drugs Thursday in Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood have ...
"Some people they be fighting the process. For one, they being traumatized while they out here on Earth," he said. “We have ...
At City Council’s first public hearing on overdoses since a “bad batch” of illegal drugs sent at least 27 people at Penn ...
A mass overdose in Baltimore on Thursday left more than two dozen people hospitalized, testing the city’s progress on overdose prevention.
Officials said Baltimore County’s significant decline in overdose deaths is the result of coordinated overdose prevention efforts. The Baltimore County Health Department credits their efforts to ...
As of Friday morning, there were no fatalities, but at least 27 people had been hospitalized for suspected overdoses, ...
The event, caused by a bad batch of an unspecified drug, prompted a surge in 911 calls. Experts think a potent batch of fentanyl might have caused the overdoses and that the specific blend is still ...
US overdose deaths fell by 27% in 2024, marking the largest one-year decline on record. CDC data shows 30,000 fewer deaths, with experts citing naloxone access, treatment, and shifting drug use.