The mass casualty event in Penn North that saw at least 25 people hospitalized on Thursday underscored the persistence of ...

If anything, this was a wakeup call because this city, this state and this country have been fighting back against opioids — and with some success. Overdose deaths are down substantially. Baltimore ...

None of the 27 people who overdosed on a suspected bad batch of drugs Thursday in Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood have ...

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 ...

Baltimore’s fatal overdose rate has quadrupled since 2013. It dipped in 2022, but preliminary data for 2023, not shown below, indicates overdoses were on track to rise again. 200 deaths per ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Last year's overdose data in Maryland showed a decline of fewer than 2,000 deaths for the first time since 2015. State data from 2024 shows the number of fatal overdoses ...

Baltimore City Council members said Monday they would hold a series of hearings on the city government’s response to its overdose epidemic, following an examination by The New York Times and The ...

More than 100,000 Americans are dying from drug overdoses every year, largely from the synthetic opioid fentanyl. But in recent years, no city has been hit as hard as Baltimore when it comes to ...

In a new report from the New York Times, Baltimore was dubbed the "U.S. Overdose Capital," with nearly 6,000 deaths over the last six years. A New York Times analysis showed from 2018 to 2022 the ...

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 ...