Fentanyl’s Deadly Advance

Published: June 20, 2019, 2:02 p.m.

The latest statewide numbers show a slight drop in fatal overdoses, but deaths are still being driven by opioids--not heroin but fentanyl, a highly potent synthetic opioid often laced into heroin.WYPR reporter Mary Rose Madden looks at how Baltimore is grappling with the opioid epidemic in her series, “In The Hole: Understanding Maryland's Opioid Epidemic”. And addiction medicine specialist Dr. Yngvild Olsen describes how medication can help someone get off illicit drugs.