The camera on your smartphone normally used to capture selfies might help fight the opioid crisis. Baltimore startup emocha Mobile Health has found success using a video app for patients taking drugs for tuberculosis and hepatitis C. With a $1.7 ...

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The Open Society Institute-Baltimore gave the Baltimore City Health Department $200,000 to help fight the opioid crisis, capping a stretch of increased funding for the opioid crisis across the city and state. The grant money will fund health department initiatives ...

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ANNAPOLIS — New laws that took effect in Maryland include steps to provide funding for Planned Parenthood to mitigate potential federal cuts and require schools to teach about the dangers of opioid addiction. A state tax break for emergency services personnel ...

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The Maryland Independent College and University Association and Adapt Pharma have reached an agreement to stock the pharma company’s Narcan nasal spray. The private colleges will each get eight doses of the drug, also known by its generic name naloxone. ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Measures in Congress to dismantle much of the Affordable Care Act “do not work for Maryland,” a spokeswoman for Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday. The comments, the strongest yet from the Republican governor’s administration about efforts to dismantle ...

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The Republican campaign to roll back former President Barack Obama’s health care law is colliding with the opioid epidemic. Medicaid cutbacks would hit hard in Maryland and other states deeply affected by the addiction crisis and struggling to turn the ...

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Baltimore health officials say they are rationing their distribution of a drug used to counter opioid overdoses. The Baltimore Sun reports that the city is running low on the overdose reversal drug naloxone. City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen said ...

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More than 2,000 people died of drug and alcohol overdoses in Maryland last year, an increase of 66 percent over 2015. Calling the deaths a “grim tide,” Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Dennis Schrader said in a statement Thursday that ...

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Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen will sign a new standing order making an antidote that reverses the effects of opioids available over the counter. Wen will sign the order on Thursday at 9 a.m. at Fibus Drug Store. The ...

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BEL AIR — As Cpl. Kevin Phillips pulled up to investigate a suspected opioid overdose, paramedics were already at the Maryland home giving a man a life-saving dose of the overdose reversal drug Narcan. Drugs were easy to find: a ...

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