For A Night Anne Arundel Rises Above Heroin Epidemic

GLEN BURNIE, Md. (AP) — Heroin and opioid overdose statistics in Maryland tell the story of a merciless epidemic.
State and local governments, police departments and health officials have collaborated to expand and evolve in an effort to meet the growing challenge.
Yet there were 123 more opioid-related deaths in Maryland in the first three months of 2017 than the same January-March period a year prior, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s preliminary first-quarter overdo