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A week after mass overdose, Baltimore groups implore city to fund services in Penn North
At City Council’s first public hearing on overdoses since a “bad batch” of illegal drugs sent at least 27 people at Penn North to area hospitals in critical or serious condition, McCormick and other leaders of treatment programs and community organizations implored city leaders for more financial support.
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Penn North’s mass overdose event: A wakeup call | EDITORIAL
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 alone has seen fatal overdoses decline 25% last year alone.
The mass casualty event in Penn North that saw at least 25 people hospitalized on Thursday underscored the persistence of ...
City leaders are intensifying efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, as homicides and non-fatal shootings have seen a significant decline. On Thursd ...
"Some people they be fighting the process. For one, they being traumatized while they out here on Earth," he said. “We have ...
The Drug Enforcement Administration is working with Baltimore Police to find the source of Thursday’s mass overdose in West ...
As of Friday morning, there were no fatalities, but at least 27 people had been hospitalized for suspected overdoses, ...
Drug overdose deaths in the Chicago area mirror a statewide and national trend showing a sharp decline from 2023 to 2024. Combined, Cook County and the five collar counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake ...
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 ...
In three out of four watershed regions, Blue Water Baltimore, a nonprofit environmental organization, found declining trends for water quality.
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