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Patients of PHA Healthcare, a treatment program in Baltimore, were housed in drug-ridden buildings where many overdosed, an investigation reported last year. Some are still there.
By Alissa Zhu
Alissa Zhu is a reporter for The Baltimore Banner. She examined the government’s response to rising overdose deaths as part of The Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship.
Change seemed imminent in January for patients of a troubled drug addiction program in Baltimore. State health regulators said they would be transferred to new treatment providers and moved out of squalid, drug-ridden and roach-infested apartments. Some patients hoped they would at last get the help they needed.
