thinking to the mayor and to senator cardin and congressman saar baines and also to your team at healthcare for the homeless. yesterday the state of maryland released data for overdose deaths and in 2017 there were 2282 total overdose deaths in our state and of those 761 occurred in baltimore city. 573 of these death in 2017 and fall fentanyl for comparison in 201312 death involved fentanyl which is a 5000% increase in four years. they are terrifying and frustrating because they keep increasing and we don't even know if this is the peak of the epidemic these numbers are frustrating because those of us on the front lines we know what works to stop this epidemic. here in baltimore everyday residents have used the opioid antidote narcan to save lives in 2017 that doesn't even include but are first responders are firefighters or ems. we have to ration narcan every week i have to decide who gets narcan and who doesn't does that make sense we ration a life-saving antidote in the middle of a public health emergency? under the mayor's leadership we are treating addiction as the disease as it is to