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 especially severe inwards Appalachia, where people are 55% to a greater extent than probable to piece of work from a drug overdose than inwards the balance of the country.
The Overdose Mapping Tool helps to position overdose hot-spots inwards Appalachia in addition to allows yous to explore the underlying socio-economic in addition to demographic factors which may play a business office inwards creating these hot-spots. The map provides a choropleth persuasion of the overdose mortality charge per unit of measurement inwards each Appalachian county.
Using the map sidebar yous tin select to also persuasion a break of socio-economic in addition to demographic county information on the map. This allows yous to uncovering the frequently 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 endure 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, especially inwards the nigh southern counties. However the map reveals that at that topographic point are many other regions inwards the solid seat down where opioid prescription rates are also rattling high.
The BuzzFeed article quotes the CDC every bit maxim that the higher prescribing counties are frequently marked past times higher rates of arthritis, diabetes in addition to unemployment. It thus looks similar unopen 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 degree from 1979 to 2015. Using the timeline yous tin select to persuasion the break of overdose deaths for whatsoever 5 twelvemonth catamenia inwards these years. If yous press the play push clit yous tin persuasion an animated loop of the information from 1979 to 2015.
You tin click on a county on the map to persuasion 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 break of deaths is then modest that the deceased could endure easily identified.
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