ADDICTION CRISIS, PERSONALIZED: In an article for Baltimore Brew, Jo Martin writes about Maryland’s opioid crisis, from the point of view of a journalist whose son has been dealing with addiction for three decades.Three years ago, she writes, sounding the alarm about “a dramatic increase in heroin-related emergency room visits in Maryland,” Gov. Martin O’Malley announced a four-pronged response to the crisis, including expanded access to the life-saving drug naloxone and other measures. Since then, 4,489 Marylanders have died from drug and alcohol intoxication, with Baltimore the epicenter at 1,392.
