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 March 2025, a total of 11 Somerset County residents have experienced a non-fatal opioid overdose.

Overdose Fatality Dashboard:

https://somersethealth.org/overdose-fatality-dashboard/

 

In The News:

January 2025: Warnings of Medetomidine in Street Drug Supply

http://www.hcdrugfree.org/2025/01/warnings-of-medetomidine-in-street-drug-supply-npr/

 

September 2024: New Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Children are released

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-pediatric-opioid-rules-aim-cut-risks-clarify-pain-2024a1000hrt

 

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

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/overdose-deaths-decreased-first-time-5-years-still-topped-100000-rcna152193

 

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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