With Dozens of Orphaned by Opioid Crisis, This Maryland County has new Outlook on Trauma Services [baltimoresun.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/6/192:29 PM

By Phil Davis, The Baltimore Sun, December 2, 2019

Growing up in a Cecil County trailer park, Ray Lynn has been shaped by tragedy.

Lynn went from seeing drug addiction firsthand in his neighborhood as a child to tackling the problem as a police officer decades later.

“I can name you friends that are dead because of it," he said.

Lynn, 44, also saw his brother and sister burn to death in a house fire when he was 19, he said. It’s what led him to become a volunteer firefighter and, later, a Maryland State Police trooper.

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