Skyrocketing Opioid Overdoses Can Be Traced To China

BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Just released numbers show a skyrocketing and record number of Marylanders dying from drug overdoses.
State health officials say 2,089 people overdosed to death last year. Most of them were from ingesting powerful opioids.
The alarming number is a 66 percent increase from the year before.
Governor Larry Hogan has already declared a state of emergency over the crisis.
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