thank you to mayor catherine pugh, senator cardin, and congressman darman for attending. and thank you to the team at health care for the homeless for hosting. yesterday maryland released data for overdose deaths. 82 2017, there were 2002 total. of those, 761 occurred in baltimore city. 573 of these deaths in 2017 involved fentanyl. in 2013, 12 deaths involved fentanyl, which is a 5000% increase in four years. these numbers are terrifying and frustrating. terrifying because they keep increasing, and we don't know if this is the peak of the epidemic. the numbers are frustrating because those of us on the front lines know what works to stop this epidemic. in baltimore, every day residents have used the opioid narcan to save 1130 lives in 2017. that is not counting the lives saved by first responders, police officers, firefighters, or ems. we are having to ration naloxone. every week i have to decide who will get naloxone and who will go without. does it make sense that we are rationing in the middle of a public health emergency? we are focused on treating addiction as the d