Medical, Nursing Students Learn How To Treat Heroin Overdoses

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Medical and nursing students are adding a course to their training: how to treat heroin overdoses.
It’s a new problem for some, an old issue for others, but no matter how you look at it, drug overdoses in Maryland are up.
Maryland saw a 62 percent increase from 2015 to 2016, and the state’s Chief Medical Examiner is hoping to save more lives.
“I’ve been doing this for almost 30 years, and I just have never seen anything like this,” says Maryl