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Baltimore finalizes 2025'027 overdose response plan, expands naloxone access and harm-reduction services
Summary
City and health officials told a City Council committee they finalized the 2025'027 Overdose Response Strategic Plan, raised the long-term fatal-overdose reduction target to 50% by 2040, and announced expanded naloxone access, vending-machine harm-reduction kits, and targeted grants to community providers.
Baltimore City officials on March 19 presented a finalized 2025'027 Overdose Response Strategic Plan and a series of program expansions to the City Council's Public Health and Environment Committee.
Executive Director Sarah Whe of the mayor's overdose response office said the plan "includes an update to our overarching goal of reducing fatal overdoses. we've increased that to 50% by 2040." Whe said the plan incorporated feedback from four neighborhood listening sessions and will guide opioid-restitution fund priorities for the next two years.
Why this matters: city leaders said the revised target reflects unexpectedly large recent declines in fatal overdoses and aims to set an ambitious but measurable long-term objective while program-level metrics track near-term progress.
The plan's immediate and near-term actions include: signed grant agreements and community awards, expanded naloxone…
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