Opioids in Maryland

Drug test results that show fentanyl will be sent — with names and personal information redacted — to the Maryland Department of Health.

Since 31-year old Josh Siems died last October of a fentanyl-linked opioid overdose, his family and friends have been advocating for legislation requiring hospitals to test for fentanyl. Josh's mother and his partner join us to explain why.

Special Secretary Emily Keller, former mayor of Hagerstown, Md, discusses the role of education in countering opioid use and her personal connection to the overdose epidemic.

Officials gathered to raise awareness for drug overdose while working to prevent deaths.

Health officials are concerned over spiking COVID numbers in Baltimore. And the ongoing pandemic has aggravated another continuing national health crisis: opioid overdose deaths.

It’s been 48 hours since Darryll Burrell called an intake counselor and got his childhood friend, Al Jackson, a spot in the drug treatment program Powell…

Al Jackson has been addicted to heroin since he was a young teenager, growing up in South Baltimore. These days, he says, it's hard to find heroin that's…

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has charged seven members of the Sackler family, who control the drug maker Purdue Pharma, with violating the state…

Every day, Darrel Burrell and his team of outreach workers set up a card table near a known drug –dealing site. Every day, they hand out about fifty kits…

State health officials expect that when the final numbers are accounted for, more than 2000 Marylanders will have died from opioid overdoses in 2018. And…