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A Federal Policy Is Complicating How Organizations Battle the Opioid Crisis

Summary by KFF Health News
Last year, Baltimore had three mass overdose incidents in the span of three months in its Penn North neighborhood. In one incident, more than two dozen people were hospitalized after many were found unresponsive, lying in the streets or on sidewalks. No one died, but some came close. Follow-up testing found that the street drugs contained high levels of N-methylclonazepam, a benzodiazepine that operates similarly to Xanax or Valium. Like opioids…
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KFF Health News broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.
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