Mapping The Us Overdose Epidemic

The USA is experiencing a drug overdose epidemic. Drug overdose deaths convey to a greater extent than than doubled inwards the concluding 15 years. The displace for a lot of these overdose deaths appears to hold upward the heavy marketing of powerful prescription painkillers past times the pharmaceutical industry.

The Guardian has illustrated the rising break of drug overdose deaths inwards the USA amongst an animated choropleth map, which shows the break of overdose deaths at county degree from 1999-2014. The map uses information from the Centers for Disease Control too Prevention.

A Deadly Crisis: Mapping the Spread of America's Drug Overdose Epidemic appears to hold upward a custom made choropleth map, which uses Ractive.js to animate through the 15 years of data. The animated choropleth layer is rattling effective inwards visualizing the dramatic growth inwards overdose deaths across the United States.

The Guardian article includes a break of smaller animated choropleth maps to illustrate the rising inwards overdose deaths inwards a break of specific states. The animations inwards these smaller maps is slowed downwards a little, which helps to visualize the spread of overdose deaths past times county inwards each of the highlighted states.