Baltimore At Forefront Of $1B Plan To Fight Drug Abuse

Tuesday Mar 29th, 2016

It’s a threat the president says is on par with terrorism–America’s growing battle with painkiller addiction. Now the feds are seeking more than $1 billion to try to save lives. A prominent Baltimore health official is at the forefront. An estimated 78 Americans die from opioid overdoses every day. Now the White House is taking action.

Daniel Torsch, 24, of Perry Hall died of a heroin overdose in 2010. “I feel like our family was given a life sentence of grief,” his mother, Toni Torsch, said. Torsch–one of thousands of Marylanders to lose their lives to opioid addiction. There were 887 killed in the state in 2014 alone.

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