Dr. Leana Wen is Baltimore City’s Health Commissioner, and she joins us here on Maryland Morning each month for our Healthwatch segment -- conversations about issues affecting the health and well-being of Charm City residents.
In today's program, Dr. Wen talks with Tom about her continuing campaign against opioid painkiller abuse, and her participation last week with other Baltimore community leaders in a White House meeting on the city's social and economic resurgence.
And Dr. Wen talks with Tom about the obesity threat posed by sugary drinks, and her support for pending City Council legislation requiring warning signs to be posted wherever sugar-sweetened beverages are sold. For more information about the proposal to require warnings about sugary drinks, click here.
