The Court of Special Appeals on Friday reversed an involuntary manslaughter conviction for a man who sold heroin to a friend who later overdosed, finding there was no evidence that the man knew the drugs were unusually dangerous. Nathan Johnson ...

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The Trump administration should invoke government authority to slash prices of a life-saving overdose drug or provide funding to expand access amid the coast-to-coast opioid epidemic, Baltimore’s health department and a national advocacy group said Thursday. America is in the ...

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The Court of Special Appeals has reversed the manslaughter conviction of a Worcester County drug dealer last week after determining prosecutors failed to establish a causal link between the drugs sold to the victim and his death.

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Deaths related to opioid overdoses use continued to rise through the third quarter of 2017, according to numbers released Friday by the Maryland Department of Health. Fentanyl-related overdoses continued as the most significant contributor to overdose deaths, as prescription opioid-related ...

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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’s health commissioner is calling for making long-term treatment for drug addiction available for more patients after a state report shows that overdoses in the city have gone up significantly. Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released a report ...

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