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A week after mass overdose, Baltimore groups implore city to fund services in Penn North
At City Council’s first public hearing on overdoses since a “bad batch” of illegal drugs sent at least 27 people at Penn North to area hospitals in critical or serious condition, McCormick and other leaders of treatment programs and community organizations implored city leaders for more financial support.
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Penn North’s mass overdose event: A wakeup call | EDITORIAL
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 alone has seen fatal overdoses decline 25% last year alone.
Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood experiences second mass causality in two weeks with several confirmed overdoses
Baltimore City Police reported another series of overdoses in the Penn North area early Friday morning, less than a week after a mass overdose incident in the same neighborhood. According to officials
The mass casualty event in Penn North that saw at least 25 people hospitalized on Thursday underscored the persistence of ...
A mass overdose in Baltimore on Thursday left more than two dozen people hospitalized, testing the city’s progress on ...
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 ...
The Drug Enforcement Administration is working with Baltimore Police to find the source of Thursday’s mass overdose in West ...
City leaders are intensifying efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, as homicides and non-fatal shootings have seen a ...
As of Friday morning, there were no fatalities, but at least 27 people had been hospitalized for suspected overdoses, ...
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 ...
Drug overdose deaths in the Chicago area mirror a statewide and national trend showing a sharp decline from 2023 to 2024. Combined, Cook County and the five collar counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake ...
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