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DLS: Overdose deaths remain high; state and federal grants fund response
Summary
DLS presented overdose trends showing over 22,000 Maryland deaths from 2015–2024 and described federal grants, state behavioral health appropriations and opioid settlement funds used for local grants and crisis response.
Department of Legislative Services briefed the Health and Government Operations Committee on Maryland—s overdose crisis, federal and state funding and the use of opioid‑settlement dollars.
"According to the CDC, more than 22,000 individuals died of overdoses in Maryland between fiscal 2015 and 2024," Naomi Camaro said, and DLS analysts showed trends that track national patterns but with notable jurisdictional disparities: Baltimore City had both the…
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