Special to the AFRO
After 27 people in Baltimore City were rushed to the hospital for apparent drug overdoses on July 10, the attention immediately went to the site of the incidents, Pennsylvania and North avenues, and more broadly to the city, where the problem of drug addiction is evident by the numbers.
Research reveals that 27 is the largest known number of people to suffer drug overdoses at one time in the country. Allegedly, the substance or substances causing this massive overdose were “testers,” drugs that dealers provide to users freely with anticipation of future sales.
Substance abuse is not exclusive to the Penn-North area, however, but is a crisis facing many neighborhoods in Baltimore City, including East Baltimore, Cherry Hill and Highlandtown…