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Press Releases

• Marylanders Join the First Substance Use Awareness Rally In Annapolis
• Maryland Awards $12.4 Million in Opioid Restitution Fund Competitive Grants, Announces Strategic Overdose Response Priorities
• Governor Moore Announces Dramatic Decrease in Fatal Overdoses in Maryland in 2024
• Maryland Department of Health partners with Baltimore Ravens for new campaign addressing stigma of addiction
• Maryland Department of Health announces new program for youth struggling with substance and opioid use disorders
• Moore-Miller Administration Recognizes International Overdose Awareness Day
• Maryland Department of Health launches new overdose data dashboard
• Maryland Department of Health announces funding opportunity to address the opioid crisis
• Governor Moore signs executive order creating Maryland’s Office of Overdose Response
• Maryland Department of Labor Launches Recovery Friendly Workplace Pilot and Participates in National Governors Association Policy Academy for Overdose Prevention

See our Press Release Archive for older announcements.

Maryland’s Office of Overdose Response in the News

Leveraging Dollars to Combat the Opioid Crisis at #MACoCon
by Karrington Anderson (Maryland Association of Counties)

Baltimore County officials tour Eastern Family Resource Center
by Colleen Johnson (Fox 45 Baltimore)

Nationwide bus tour visits Baltimore to promote hope, recovery as city combats OD crisis
by Logan Hullinger (Mobtown Mag)

Garrett County hosts Special Secretary of Overdose Response
by Garret County Health Department Communications Team

Spotlight on Queen Anne’s Local Substance Abuse Prevention Efforts
by Shantelle Malcolm-Lym (MACo)

CDC says Maryland, and most of the nation, has had fewer overdose deaths in 2024
by Danielle Brown (Maryland Matters)

QAC welcomes Secretary of Overdose Response
by Andrea Grabenstein (WNST Baltimore Positive)

Former Hagerstown mayor Emily Keller tells Nestor about Maryland fighting fentanyl and opioid crisis
by Nestor Aparicio (WNST Baltimore Positive)

Maryland council considering new recommendations for opioid settlement spending
by Scott Maucione (WYPR)

Hygea Healthcare opens new 50-bed addiction rehabilitation facility in Middle River
by Aliza Worthington (Baltimore Fishbowl)

Overdose Prevention, Reduction, Treatment, Recovery
Frank Conaway Sr. Radio Show (WOLB 1010AM Baltimore)

Charles officials share concerns about youth overdoses
by Matt Wynn (Southern Maryland News)

Community Overdose Action Town Hall held in McHenry
by Brenda Ruggiero (The Garrett County Republican)

Moore issues executive order to ‘broaden’ state efforts to combat drug overdoses
by Danielle J. Brown (Maryland Matters)

‘These issues are personal’: Maryland to expand overdose prevention beyond opioids
by John Domen (WTOP)

Older Stories

• State, Talbot County leaders address opioid overdose crisis
  by Natalie Jones (Star Democrat)

• Montgomery County leaders hold opioid overdose town hall
  by Matt Pusatory (WUSA9)

• We know stigma is killing people’: Childhood traumas often drive addictions, Societal judgments often hinder recovery
  by Laura Tayman (Star Democrat)
  

• Overdose crisis town hall in Hagerstown hears feedback, provides updates
  By Julie Greene (Herald Mail)

• Opioid crisis prevention town hall explores ways to confront community challenges
  By Steven Cohen (DC News Now)

• Maryland’s Cecil County addresses the use of opioid settlement funds
  By Hannah Saunders (State of Reform)

• Baltimore County residents discuss the fight against opioid addiction
  By Ja Nai Wright (ABC 2/WMAR) 

• Community Overdose Action Town Hall Series Begins in Dorchester County
  By Joe Ciccanti (The Talk of Delmarva)

• Fentanyl is killing kids. State lawmakers are searching for answers.
  By Carmen Paun (Politico)

• Town hall on preventing overdoses in the community set in Crisfield
  By Staff (Daily State News)

• Former Hagerstown mayor Emily Keller tells Nestor why Moore picked her as opioid chief for Maryland
  By Nestor Aparicio (WNST-AM 1570)

• House subcommittee hearing on opioid crisis held in Gettysburg
  By Vanessa Sanders (Gettysburg Times)

• Construction for Frederick County’s crisis center underway
  By Mikayla Newton (DC News Now)

• Md. Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller meets at Brooke’s House to discuss addiction crisis
  By Dave McMillion (Herald Mail) 

• Maryland seeks to alter trend of opioid deaths under special secretary
  by Dwight Weingarten (Herald-Mail Media Hagerstown)

• Maryland’s new ‘Special Secretary of Opioid Response’ on preventing overdose deaths
  By Sheilah Kast, Maureen Harvie (WYPR Baltimore)