After battling addiction following a gunshot injury, Corey Newman found a lifeline in Baltimore’s mobile opioid treatment van, which provides medication-assisted treatment to individuals released from jail. As Baltimore seeks at least $5 billion in its lawsuit against opioid distributors, the city is preparing to expand harm reduction programs, including naloxone distribution, harm reduction vending machines, and supervised drug use sites, in an ambitious 15-year plan to combat the crisis. Originally published in The Baltimore Sun.

Susan Sherman is quoted.