The University of Chicago has released a novel interactive map that looks at the rates of drug overdose deaths inwards Appalachia. The national crisis inwards opioid addiction is peculiarly severe inwards Appalachia, where people are 55% to a greater extent than probable to perish from a drug overdose than inwards the residuum of the country.
The Overdose Mapping Tool helps to set overdose hot-spots inwards Appalachia in addition to allows you lot to explore the underlying socio-economic in addition to demographic factors which may play a usage inwards creating these hot-spots. The map provides a choropleth sentiment of the overdose mortality charge per unit of measurement inwards each Appalachian county.
Using the map sidebar you lot tin sack conduct to also sentiment a release of socio-economic in addition to demographic county information on the map. This allows you lot to discover the oft rigid correlation betwixt poverty in addition to unemployment rates amongst overdose mortality rates. Low college attendance in addition to high rates of disabilities also seem to locomote mutual inwards the counties amongst the highest overdose mortality rates.
Last twelvemonth BuzzFeed mapped the US Counties Prescribing Way More Opioids Than Others. The map shows that doctors are prescribing opioids heavily inwards Appalachia, peculiarly inwards the nigh southern counties. However the map reveals that at that spot are many other regions inwards the province where opioid prescription rates are also really high.
The BuzzFeed article quotes the CDC every bit maxim that the higher prescribing counties are oft marked yesteryear higher rates of arthritis, diabetes in addition to unemployment. It thence looks similar closed to of the same socio-economic factors are at play inwards U.S. prescription rates every bit inwards the overdose mortality rates inwards Appalachia.
Last twelvemonth U.S. Senator for Utah Mike Lee also released an interactive map showing Unintentional Opioid Overdose Deaths. The map uses mortality information from the Centers for Disease Control in addition to Prevention.
The senator's Leaflet map shows the rising inwards opioid overdose deaths at county grade from 1979 to 2015. Using the timeline you lot tin sack select to sentiment the release of overdose deaths for whatsoever 5 twelvemonth catamenia inwards these years. If you lot press the play push clitoris you lot tin sack sentiment an animated loop of the information from 1979 to 2015.
You tin sack click on a county on the map to sentiment the county decease charge per unit of measurement per 100,000 inhabitants for whatsoever of the mapped 5 twelvemonth periods. Some counties are grayed out on the map for confidentiality reasons. This is where the release of deaths is in addition to so modest that the deceased could locomote easily identified.
