Baltimore’s short on a lifesaving drug. Declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency can help

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — If the paramedics had gotten there two minutes later, Darrin Dorsey would be dead. “Through the process you don’t even know you are about to die or you’re dead,” said Dorsey. “You only know what happened to you when you wake up and someone tells you.”

He recalled overdosing on fentanyl-laced heroin nearly two weeks ago. Dorsey’s near-death experience comes as Baltimore city officials have been trying to get naloxone, a...