Opioids in Maryland

Payments will go to every state in the nation after state AGs sign on to settlement.

Judge Fletcher-Hill offered the city a retrial or lower payout.

The nonbinding suggestions will help localities reduce issues with addiction.

Baltimore's City Council President Zeke Cohen joins Midday for monthly updates on the happenings in City Hall.

The news comes as the Trump administration plans to cut grants for Naloxone.

Fewer Marylanders are dying from overdoses. We ask the top state official whose job is to fight overdoses - Why? And what’s the strategy to continue the trend?

The grant money comes from settlements with opioid companies.

The initial funds will go to setting up a governance structure for the money.

The legislation plans to increase oversight over the massive windfall the state is getting from drug companies.

The first hearings since litigation with companies will start after a judge awards abatement funds to the city.