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BCHD March Digest

Mar 1st, 2016

Baltimore City Health Department Digest - March 2016

One Year in Baltimore: Fighting for Health

Feb 29th, 2016

As I assumed leadership of the Baltimore City Health Department one year ago, I

Dr. Leana Wen: A citizen’s guide to good health (Daily Record)

Feb 26th, 2016

This spring, conversations across our city are focusing on the state of the economy, public safety, and education. These are all essential issues – but there is another critical topic that cuts across all of them: health.

Dr. Leana Wen: A citizen’s guide to good health

Feb 25th, 2016

This spring, conversations across our city are focusing on the state of the economy, public safety, and education.

FDA Urged To Put Warning On Dangerous Medications Combination

Feb 25th, 2016

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was recently urged by medical specialists to properly label combination of medications to warn the public of their effects to a person's health.

Baltimore City Health Commissioner Wen Testifies before Maryland Senate on Bill to Strengthen State’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

Feb 24th, 2016

ANNAPOLIS, MD (February 24, 2016) – Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen testified Wednesday before the Maryland Senate Finance Committee urging the General Assembly to support Senate Bill 382, legislation that revises Maryland’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), and offered amendments to the bill that would encourage physicians to co-prescribe naloxone with opioid medications and to caution against concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines.

Can Baltimore Provide Addiction Treatment On Demand?

Feb 24th, 2016

Across the U.S., more than 20 million people abuse drugs or alcohol or both.

One man's journey to recovery using a medical-assisted treatment clinic

Feb 24th, 2016

Gary Wilson was a young man in his twenties when he first experimented with heroin. His addiction started in the '80s with marijuana use, and escalated from there.

Treating Street Violence As A Contagion, Baltimore Looks For More Than One Cure

Feb 24th, 2016

When lawmakers try to tackle gun violence, they often turn to measures like adding police officers or cracking down on illegal guns.

Baltimore County says police will start carrying heroin antidote naloxone

Feb 23rd, 2016

Baltimore County police officers will begin carrying naloxone this year to combat an increase in heroin use, County Executive 

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