News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
Please join the Wicomico County Health Department for its fifth opioid forum, as we share with residents what is being done in regards to the opioid crisis. Community members are encouraged to attend, and will be given the opportunity to ask questions and share what they feel needs to be done about the opioid crisis. […]
Continue ReadingEASTON – Talbot County Sheriff Joe Gamble and Tidewater Rotary invite everyone to attend a lighting ceremony and community events this September in support of Talbot Goes Purple. Talbot Goes Purple is an awareness and prevention program that empowers our youth and our community to ‘Go Purple’ as a sign of taking a stand against […]
Continue ReadingPrevention, Enforcement, and Treatment and Recovery Efforts to Expand in FY 2019 ANNAPOLIS, MD — Maryland’s Opioid Operational Command Center, the Maryland Department of Health, and the Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention today announced $40 million in new funding to fight the heroin and opioid epidemic. “Over the past year, we have seen […]
Continue ReadingBaltimore, MD (January 26, 2018) Public Education to Combat Statewide Opioid Epidemic The Maryland Department of Health today announced two multi-media advertising campaigns to help raise awareness and combat the state’s opioid epidemic. In an effort to reduce the rate of overdose deaths among Marylanders through increased public education, the Department’s Behavioral Health Administration’s first […]
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Join us on Friday, March 2, 2018 – during Downtown Chestertown First Friday – for the opening of the Kent County Arts Council’s (KCAC) next exhibition: “Heroin & Healing”, a New Day Campaign program curated by Peter Bruun of Bruun Studios. Across the country stories of heroin and other opioid overdoses are leading the evening […]
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