Baltimore planning an opioid office, public database of overdose deaths

Top Baltimore leaders said City Hall has plans to create an opioid overdose office and release a public tracker for overdose-related deaths. At a Thursday budgeting hearing for her office, Chief Administrative Officer Faith Leach said Baltimore officials have for months been working to expand services for people addicted to opioids, and hope to do so using potential settlement money from an ongoing city lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies that produced the addictive drugs.