SNOW HILL, Md. - Worcester County has been designated as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area by the Washington/ Baltimore HIDTA region. Despite the new title, the Worcester County Sheriff's Office ...

Carroll County just got a major boost in its battle against drugs in the community, particularly heroin and other opioids, having been designated as a member county of the Baltimore-Washington High ...

Edgewood native Stephen T. Moyer, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary, has been named to help lead a program aimed at addressing drug trafficking in the ...

Director of National Drug Control Policy Michael Botticelli announced the designation of 18 additional counties in nine states as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, including 11 counties in states ...

B A L T I M O R E, March 14 -- Baltimore's heroin problem is already the worst in the nation, but it could get even worse if the city doesn't do more to treat addicts, experts and officials say. A ...

The opioid epidemic is ripping through America like a fire untamed. Blame big pharma, if you want. Blame cheap pain pills and cheaper heroin. Blame the mesolimbic reward system. Just don't wallow in ...

Charleston, SC (WCIV) — A real-time map that tracks overdoses nationwide. That's the function of HIDTA's ODmap. It's used by 4300 agencies in the country, including the Charleston Police Department.

B A L T I M O R E, March 14 -- Baltimore is the heroin capital of the United States. Government agencies estimate that as many as one in 10 of the city's residents are addicted to the drug. Wanda, 42, ...

The Charles County Health Department will lose all the funding it receives for a three-pronged program on drug crime recidivism if the Bush administration's fiscal 2006 budget passes as proposed. At ...

In the summer of 2016, drug overdose deaths in Baltimore were exploding and health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen told federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials the city needed real-time data to ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Information sharing is an important part of regional public-safety agencies. Organizations from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland and West Virginia are among many ...