On Pills and Needles: Maryland's opioid crisis

Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposed $17.7 billion operating budget for next fiscal year, released Wednesday, cuts funding for several Democratic priorities.Among…

The number of people in Maryland who died after taking the narcotic Fentanyl increased by more than 70 percent in the first half of 2017, compared with…

Two Maryland doctors have been charged with illegally selling prescriptions for opioid painkillers at so-called “pill mills.” State Attorney General Brian…

Odell Jones describes himself as a “working addict.” For decades, he maintained a career in social work and politics, as well as a family — four children…

The Baltimore City Health Department is getting a new $200,000 grant from the Open Society Institute – Baltimore to aid in the fight against opioid…

Last year, 157 people in Maryland died from overdoses of Oxycodone, a prescription narcotic.Heather Young, a nurse practitioner at Bon Secours’ substance…

Sixty-four-year old Johnnie Davis has been treating his heroin addiction at the Bon Secours New Hope Treatment Center in West Baltimore for nearly 20…