​"An Emergency Preparedness Response to Opioid-Prescribing Enforcement Actions in Maryland, 2018-2019" 

Published on November 2, 2021, this article was written by former OP&R ​Director Sherry Adams, former Lead Epidemiologist Jennifer Stanley and former Epidemiology Field Assignee​ Jessica Acharya. It includes a guest editorial on opioid overdose surveillance and 11 articles that highlight the importance of timely, comprehensive local data to inform real-time public health responses to address the opioid overdose epidemic. ​