Over the past six years, Baltimore has endured one of America’s deadliest drug epidemics. Black men in their mid-50s to early 70s are experiencing fatal overdoes at a significantly higher rate than any other group. While just 7 percent of Baltimore City’s population, they account for nearly 30 percent of drug fatalities – a death rate 20 times that of the rest of the country. Black men of that age in Baltimore city are more likely to die of substance overdose than from cancer or even Covid-19 at the height of the pandemic. Join Maryland Philanthropy Network to collaborate with colleagues to learn about harm reduction programs, challenges in implementation, and intervention methods to prevent fatal outcomes.
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Our region’s substance use crisis exists at the intersection of public policy, public health, and criminal justice issues.
Maryland Philanthropy Network members are invited to have a conversation with Scott Nolen with OSI-Baltimore, Greg Warren with Gaudenzia, and Dr. Kima Taylor on opioids and drug addiction treatment in Baltimore and across the US.
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View materials from Harm Reduction Summit: Addressing the Older Adult Opioid Overdose Crisis.
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Program resources from "When Opioids and Drug Addiction Hit Home: Lessons from across the U.S."
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Tuerk House, a nonprofit drug and alcohol treatment system serving the most disadvantaged members of the greater Baltimore community, has been awarded a signature grant of $700,000 from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the larges
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Unlike the public bathrooms, dark alleys and vacant rowhomes where addicts furtively conduct their business, the facility’s atmosphere would be welco