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

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

City leaders are intensifying efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, as homicides and non-fatal shootings have seen a ...

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 ...

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 mass overdose in Baltimore on Thursday left more than two dozen people hospitalized, testing the city’s progress on ...

As of Friday morning, there were no fatalities, but at least 27 people had been hospitalized for suspected overdoses, ...

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 COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) -- For the first time in a decade, Maryland experienced a decline in opioid death rates in the first six months of the year. There typically has been a year-to-year ...

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 ...

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 ...