The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has only published an amazing investigation into the terms that the opioid epidemic has had on i Pittsburgh neighborhood. Journalists from the paper spent months inwards Carrick, Pittsburgh talking to addicts, the police, wellness tending workers together with ordinary residents. The outcome is Riding OD Road, an in-depth particular study into how Carrick became the opioid uppercase of the region.
This remarkable slice of long-form journalism is partly illustrated past times a number of Leaflet powered interactive maps. The maps are used to present the devastating number the opioid epidemic is having on the people living inwards Carrick. They visualize the number together with locations of heroin/opioid-related charges made past times police describe inwards the expanse together with the number of drug related police describe actions undertaken inwards Carrick. Another interactive map is too used to present how overseas together with absentee landlords are exploiting the province of affairs inwards Carrick past times buying upwards inexpensive housing together with and thence renting to addicts.
The maps inwards Riding OD Road are uncomplicated illustrations used to help select the scale of the opioid crisis inwards the neighborhood. The amount of Riding OD Road is the remarkable interviews amongst the people who alive together with move inwards Carrick together with their first-hand testimonies of living inwards a community beingness destroyed past times opioids,
