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

A mass overdose involving 27 people in Baltimore’s Penn-North area has sparked urgent community and city-wide response, highlighting both the depth of the drug crisis and the effectiveness of rapid ...

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 ...

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 ...

At City Council’s first public hearing on overdoses since a “bad batch” of illegal drugs sent at least 27 people at Penn ...

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 ...

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, ...

A week has passed since a mass overdose incident at Penn North sent 27 people to local hospitals and put city officials on ...

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.