This site is a service of the Somerset County Health Department and the Somerset County Opioid Misuse Prevention Program (OMPP) and is funded by the State of Maryland’s Department of Health (MDH) and SAMHSA. This site was created to provide information about:
- Local treatment providers in Somerset County, MD 2024 TRI-COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RESOURCE GUIDE
- Drug Take Back Boxes and safe drug disposal
- Maryland’s Good Samaritan Law
- Opioids, Heroin, Fentanyl, and Overdose
- Naloxone and Narcan
- And other resources available
For more information you can call Somerset County Health Department
443-523-1700
Overdose Data To Date:
As of October 2024, a total of 69 Somerset County residents have experienced a non-fatal opioid overdose, and sadly 4 lives have now been lost due to an opioid overdose.
Overdose Fatality Dashboard:
https://somersethealth.org/overdose-fatality-dashboard/
In The News:
September 2024: New Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Children are released
July 2024: Harm reduction vending machines installed in Somerset County/WMDT
https://www.wmdt.com/2024/05/vending-machines-reducing-harm-in-somerset-county/
June 2024: About 1 in 3 Americans have lost someone to a drug overdose, new study finds
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-overdose-deaths-opioid-crisis-substance-use/
May 2024: Overdose deaths decreased for first time in 5 years but still topped 100,000 according to the CDC
March 2024: Why is Fentanyl Driving Overdose Deaths? A Yale Medicine addiction medicine specialist discusses how the synthetic opioid became a problem
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/fentanyl-driving-overdoses
February 2024: UCLA Health / About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from overdoses in 2022
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/about-22-high-school-age-adolescents-died-each-week
January 2024: ABC News Video / Poisoned: America’s Fentanyl Crisis
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/poisoned-americas-fentanyl-crisis-84766860
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