Man shares his 31-year journey to sobriety amid Baltimore’s ongoing opioid crisis

Vincent Johnson remembers the moment everything changed.

“The cracking moment was just being sick and tired of being sick and tired,” he said. “In and out of jail… waking up in the morning, so miserable, not loving yourself.”

Johnson, a former drug dealer and heroin addict, is now celebrating 31 years of sobriety. His story of redemption comes at a time when Baltimore continues to grapple with the deep-rooted challenges of drug abuse — especially following last week’s mass overdose at the intersection of Pennsylvania and North Avenues, where 27 people overdosed in one day from a bad batch of fentanyl laced with a powerful sedative…

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