Naloxone boxes will be placed at metro stations around Baltimore in the aftermath of several recent mass overdoses. Naloxone is a medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and other community advocates held a ribbon cutting Monday morning to place a set of boxes at the Penn North Metro Station, the neighborhood where there were three mass overdoses.

“Naloxone is a life-saving tool that each and every one of us can use to help stop a person from overdosing,” Scott said.

Holly Arnold, administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration, expressed gratitude in launching the initiative at MTA stations.

“Connecting people also means that we care for people, and sometimes the personal challenges that people experience follow them into our public spaces, inc

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