MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

HEALTH CARE

HEALTH HOTLINES & WEBSITES

AIDS Information: 1-800-638-6252 (toll free)

1-800-553-3140 (toll free, English hearing-impaired & Spanish)

Adult Protective Services: 1-800-917-7383 (toll free)

Air quality (daily recording): (410) 631-3247

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: 1-888-422-8737 (toll free)

web: Toxic Substances and Disease

Alcohol and Drug Administration

• Burn Emergencies: 1-800-548-2876 (toll free)
  
• Child Mental Health and Terrorism: 1-800-422-0009 (toll free)
• Child Protective Services: 1-800-332-6347 (toll free)
  
• Drought: 1-877-4DROUGHT (376-8448) (toll free)
• Elderly abuse: 1-800-917-7383 (toll free)
• Emergency Numbers for Pollution Concerns
• Fish kill response: 1-800-584-3110 (toll free) or 1-800-285-8195 (toll free)
  after hours: 1-888-584-3110 or 1-866-4686

  Hazardous material: (410) 974-3551

  Headaches: 1-800-255-ACHE (2243) (toll free)

  Lead poisoning: 1-800-776-2706 (toll free) or 1-800-424-5323 (weekdays only, toll free)

  Local Departments of Social Services

  Mental Health System: 1-800-888-1965 (toll free)

  Oil spills: (410) 974-3551 or 1-866-633-4686 (toll free)

  Poisoning emergencies (Maryland Poison Center): 1-800-222-1222 (toll free)

  Primary Adult Care Program (includes Pharmacy Assistance): 1-800-226-2142 (toll free)

  Radiation accidents: (410) 631-3300 (days)

  (410) 243-8700 (after hours & weekends); 1-866-633-4866 (toll free)

  Recycling Hotline: 1-800-RECYCLE (732-9253) or 1-800-732-9253

  Shellfish harvesting area closures: 1-800-541-1210 (toll free)

  Smoking Stops Here: 1-800-QUIT-NOW; 1-800-784-8669 (toll free)

  Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): 1-800-808-7437 (toll free)
  

  nationwide hotline: 1-800-221-SIDS (toll free)

  Sexually Transmitted Dieseases: 1-800-458-5231 (weekdays)

  Suicide Prevention: 1-800-273-8255 (toll free)

  Transmittable Disease Fact Sheet

  Travelers' Health: 1-877-FYI-TRIP; 1-877-394-8747 (toll free)

  US Public Health Service: 1-800-505-CRIB (toll free)
  

  West Nile Virus: 1-866-866-2769 (CROW) (toll free)

  Youth Crisis: 1-800-422-0009 (toll free)

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