Maryland gets another $39 million in federal funds to fight opioid crisis

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is giving Maryland $39.1 million in funding dedicated to helping fight the opioid crisis. The epidemic of opioid-related overdoses and deaths nationwide has raged on through 2018. According to federal sources, opioids claimed the lives of about 130 people per day in the U.S. in 2017. In Maryland, more than 2,000 people died from opioid overdoses last year, and the death rate in Baltim ore has been about two people per day. The state previously…
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