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Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen Testifies before House Oversight Committee on Baltimore’s Efforts to End Opioid Epidemic

BALTIMORE, MD (March 22, 2016) – Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen testified Tuesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee educating members about the innovative efforts being implemented in Baltimore address the opioid abuse epidemic and urging Congress to introduce policies that will improve community-based efforts to end this public health emergency.

Dr. Leana Wen: America’s Heroin and Opioid Abuse Epidemic (March 22, 2016)

TO:                Members of the House Oversight Committee
FROM:          Dr. Leana Wen, Baltimore City Health Commissioner
RE:                 Testimony: America’s Heroin and Opioid Abuse Epidemic

Rep. Cummings Rips Pharma Company For Price Gouging On Heroin Overdose Drug

In his opening remarks at the Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

Amid opioid and heroin epidemic, CDC guidelines aim to curb painkiller prescribing

Prescription painkillers should not be a first choice for treating common ailments like back pain and arthritis, according to new federal guidelines designed to reshape how doctors prescribe

Leana Wen to testify before House on drug treatment funding

Baltimore city's health commissioner, Dr. Leana S.

Baltimore Officials Seek Crackdown on Landlords over Lead Exposure

Too many Baltimore landlords are renting “under the radar”—that is, failing to register their rental properties with the Maryland Department of the Environment—and lead exposure and poisoning

Building a ground army to fight heroin deaths

A crowd quickly gathers here on one of West Baltimore’s many drug-infested street corners. But it isn’t heroin they’re seeking. It’s a heroin antidote known as naloxone, or Narcan.

Why diseases like Zika could unfairly target America’s poor

“PLEASE DON’T PUT GARBAGE HERE,” says a sign in a rundown alley in the Sandtown-Winchester/Harlem Park neighborhood, where more than a third of the homes stand abandoned.

Baltimore's Safe Streets Program in need of funding

The city celebrated the opening of its fifth Safe Streets site in Baltimore on Thursday.

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