One of the biggest wellness crisis inwards the U.S. is the electrical flow opioid epidemic. In fact to a greater extent than people are directly killed past times drug overdoses than from gun homicides as well as machine accidents.
An ESRI Story Map is attempting to highlight as well as personalize the electrical flow prescription drug as well as heroin epidemic past times providing a means for families to part their memories of loved ones who accept died from the epidemic. Celebrating Lost Loved Ones allows anyone to add together photographs as well as memories of an opioid overdose victim to the map.
The map was created past times ESRI software developer Jeremiah Lindemann, who lost his ain blood brother to the prescription drug as well as heroin epidemic. You tin read to a greater extent than well-nigh the map inwards Jeremiah's spider web log ship service
You tin run into from the screenshot of the map at the peak of this ship service that to a greater extent than people accept added obituaries to the map inwards the north-east of the USA than inwards whatever other business office of the country. This isn't simply a coincidence. According to the New York Times the epidemic "has hitting especially difficult inwards New England as well as inwards parts of Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania as well as West Virginia. Those are the places where fentanyl, a strong synthetic opioid, started to alluvion into the heroin provide 5 to 10 years ago."
Yesterday the NYT released an interactive study called Just How Bad Is the Drug Overdose Epidemic?. This study includes an interactive choropleth map showing the percent of deaths caused past times drug overdoses inwards fifteen to 44 year-olds inwards each U.S. county. The map clearly reveals the higher than average release of drug overdose deaths inwards the north-east.
