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Note From The Commissioner: Fostering a Culture of Equity, Diversity, and Respect.

May 4th, 2018

Last Saturday, I had the honor of participating in the 2018 Women of the World (WOW) Festival held at Notre Dame of Maryland University. I shared my personal and professional journey with some incredible trailblazing women, including Major General Linda Singh, the first African-American and first woman to become Adjutant General of Maryland.

I was especially honored to meet Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, whose personal story and heroic resilience has been so moving to witness. Ms. Burke spoke about the intersection of race, gender, and class in her experience as a survivor of sexual violence and as an advocate for women and girls.

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Trending News Today (Specialty Pharmacy Times)

May 4th, 2018

Baltimore, Maryland’s health department and a national advocacy group urged the Trump administration to invoke government authority to slash naloxone prices and increase access to the opioid overdo

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Baltimore Officials Urge Trump To Lower Naloxone Price Through Law Last Considered During Anthrax Scare (Inside Health Policy)

May 4th, 2018

Baltimore health officials are urging the Trump administration to use a law, which was last considered by the Bush administration during the 2001 anthrax scare , to cut the price of the opioid-over

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Renowned Journalist Nicholas Kristof Speaks On Justice And Society (University of Maryland School of Medicine)

May 3rd, 2018

Renowned New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof will speak on May 3 at the Peabody Library in Baltimore on the need to build a fairer society. Among those attending will be Baltimore Commissioner of Health Dr. Leana Wen, former Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Robert L. Caret, chancellor of the University System of Maryland. The program will also feature Dr. Wen, who will speak about public health in Baltimore.

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Hospitals Roundup—Baltimore, hospitals team up on new opioid initiative; NIH finally launches All of Us campaign (Fierce Healthcare)

May 3rd, 2018

Baltimore hospitals will have new incentives for better addressing the opioid crisis—and sharing best practices with their counterparts across the city—under a new initiative announced by the city's top officials Monday.

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Gov’t Urged To Invoke Authority To Boost OD Antidote Access (WJZ)

May 3rd, 2018

The Baltimore City Health Department is looking to the Trump administration to expand access to the overdose reversal drug naloxone. It’s not the supply but the cost of the drug that jurisdictions like Baltimore are struggling with.

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Baltimore urges feds to invoke authority to boost OD antidote access (Daily Record)

May 3rd, 2018

The Trump administration should invoke government authority to slash prices of a life-saving overdose drug or provide funding to expand access amid the coast-to-coast opioid epidemic, Baltimore’s health department and a national advocacy group said Thursday.

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Baltimore Asks Trump to Expand Use of Drug for Opioid Overdoses (CQ Now)

May 3rd, 2018

Baltimore is making a first-of-its-kind request that the Trump administration use its existing authority to lower the cost of opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone in order to provide it to health care workers and law enforcement.

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Baltimore officials urge White House to sidestep patents on opioid overdose antidotes (STAT)

May 3rd, 2018

The Baltimore health department and a consumer advocacy group are urging the Trump administration to sidestep patents on a pair of opioid overdose antidotes in order to combat the opioid crisis.

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How Can U.S. Fight the Opioid Crisis? Try Antidote Patents (Bloomberg)

May 3rd, 2018

The Trump administration should fight the opioid epidemic with a novel weapon, say the city of Baltimore and a consumer advocacy group: overriding patents on the widely-used overdose antidote naloxone.

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