The state’s Inter-Agency Heroin and Opioid Coordinating Council met Friday for the first time since new data showed a significant jump in opioid overdose deaths in Maryland. Representatives on the council, which consists of the heads of 14 state agencies ...

Tagged with: Dennis Schrader opioids

Anne Arundel County announced plans Wednesday to sue opioid manufacturers, distributors and local doctors who dangerously over-prescribe as well as the hiring of a national law firm to pursue the litigation. The county is the first jurisdiction in Maryland to announce a future ...

Tagged with: Anne Arundel County litigation opioids Steve Schuh

Maryland’s acting U.S. attorney has appointed an assistant prosecutor to head the office’s Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit, part of a new U.S. Department of Justice pilot program announced earlier this month. Rachel Yasser, an assistant with the office ...

Tagged with: opioids pill mill u.s. attorney's office

Doctors who attend the lowest-ranked medical schools write more opioid prescriptions than doctors who attended the best medical schools, a new study from Princeton University found. “If all general practitioners had prescribed like those from the top-ranked school, we would ...

Tagged with: opioids

Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced Thursday the indictments of 11 people, including two doctors, who are accused of operating “pill mills” that illegally distributed opioids and other controlled substances. Kofi Shaw-Taylor and nine co-conspirators operated two clinics that allegedly ...

Tagged with: Attorney General Brian E. Frosh indictment opioids pill mill

Gov. Larry Hogan called on state’s attorneys from around Maryland to ramp up their prosecution of heroin dealers as part of a growing effort to address the heroin and opiate crisis. Hogan, appearing in St. Mary’s County for the announcement ...

Tagged with: heroin Larry Hogan opioids st. mary's county state prosecutors

ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Larry Hogan is scheduled to attend a news conference in St. Mary’s County, where officials plan to announce separate indictments against drug dealers relating to about a half dozen overdose deaths. County law enforcement has scheduled an ...

Tagged with: Larry Hogan opioids st. mary's county

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 ...

Tagged with: emocha Mobile Health opioids telehealth

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 ...

Tagged with: Baltimore City Health Department Larry Hogan opioids

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 ...

Tagged with: identity fraud identity theft minimum wage opioids Planned Parenthood tax fraud