Opioid Epidemic

After a terrible motorcycle wreck, Travis Rieder was prescribed high doses of opioids. Trying to taper off threw him into agonizing withdrawal, with nowhere to turn for help. In his book, “In Pain,” Rieder analyzes how the medical system could work better, and demands change.

We’ll go On the Record with the medical director of a substance-abuse treatment program to ask how the stresses of the pandemic landed on people in recovery. And with Edgar Wiggins, as he wraps up three decades running Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc.

Overdose Deaths In Maryland Accelerated During The Pandemic

Harm Reduction During The Pandemic

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…

Baltimore County has the second highest rate of fatal opioid overdoses in the state. Only Baltimore City has more. The county will begin reaching out to…

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…

Public policy on drug use in America focused for years on punishing those addicted. But more recently it’s turned toward what public health experts call…

Dan Torsch’s older brother John remembers. It was about 17 years ago. “I can trace his addiction back to one 100 milligram morphine pill,” Torsch said.…