Almost 600 people have died from overdose deaths in Baltimore City in the past 12 months .

The city's new health commissioner said she wants to cut the number of deaths almost in half in the next 14 years . It follows mass overdoses in Penn North earlier this year that brought national attention to the city's overdose crisis .

Penn North frustration

Many in the West Baltimore community said they feel forgotten in the almost 10 weeks since at least 27 people overdosed.

"I was one of those struggling with the disease of addiction, but I had to get out of it because I wanted to make myself a better life and a better man," Marvin Wise said.

Wise told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren he has been drug-free for three years. He said what is on the streets today is lethal.

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