Dashboard Health Substance Use in Maryland: Opioids - General Assembly of Maryland Department of Legislative Services

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Summary

Opioid use and overdose is a public health epidemic in Maryland. The State has responded to the crisis through various initiatives aimed at prevention, treatment, and enforcement at the local and State level. This dashboard displays overdose fatalities and the prevalence of opioids in such deaths for the first six months of calendar 2014 through 2020 and changes in Opioid-related fatalities by jurisdiction between the first six months of 2019 and 2020.

Maryland experienced the deadliest year on record in 2018 with 1,332 overdose fatalities between January and June. After a brief decline in overdose deaths in the first six months of 2019, Maryland’s total number of overdose fatalities rose again to 1,326 in the first six months of 2020. The share of deaths associated with fentanyl continues to rise, although deaths involving prescription opioids and heroin have decreased or remained level. In 2020, Baltimore City continues to have the largest number of overdose fatalities (458 between January and June) compared to other parts of the State.