Carroll County hit a milestone in the opioid epidemic as the district sees a significant drop in overdoses and deaths.

There were no fatal overdoses in the county in November, officials announced. It marks the first month with no overdose deaths in nearly a decade.

“We keep plugging along,” said Margie Neighoff, a peer recovery coach at the Carroll Hospital Center. “Keep getting the word out there that there’s help. Keep working together in the community — I think that’s a huge part of it.”

Neighoff has been a peer recovery coach since the program launched in 2019. She said her experience on the ground lines up with new overdose data officials announced as “good news.”

While there were no fatal overdoses in a month for the first time since 2016, officials said they’re seeing a downward

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