This morning, WYPR’s On the Record with Sheilah Kast hosted Ricky Morris and Samantha Kerr of Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition and the BRIDGES Coalition, both OSI-Baltimore grantees, to discuss their experiences providing harm reduction services during the COVID-19 pandemic and the prospect of establishing overdose prevention sites in Baltimore. Listen here.
There are currently two bills working their way through the General Assembly, SB279 and HB396, that would establish a pilot of six overdose preventions sites in Maryland. For more background, read an op-ed on overdose prevention sites published in Maryland Matters co-authored by Samantha Kerr.
