It never ceases to amaze me how terrible news that would be shocking if it were happening anywhere else barely seems to register if it’s happening in Baltimore. Sure, Baltimore has gotten a lot of attention recently because of the bridge disaster but that mess isn’t close to being the biggest problem the city is facing. There are the failing schools, which I’ve written about many times and also it turns out the city is the overdose capital of the US. Baltimore’s death rate from overdoses, mostly fentanyl related, is about double that of the next worst city.
People in Baltimore have been dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major American city.
In the past six years, nearly 6,000 lives have been lost. The death rate from 2018 to 2022 was nearly double that of any other large city, and higher than nearly all of Appalachia during the prescription pill crisis, the Midwest…
