The Opioid Obituary Map

One of the biggest wellness crisis inward the United States of America of America is the electrical flow opioid epidemic. In fact to a greater extent than people are straightaway 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 most the map inward Jeremiah's weblog post service
You tin run across from the screenshot of the map at the altitude of this post service that to a greater extent than people accept added obituaries to the map inward the north-east of the USA than inward whatever other business office of the country. This isn't merely a coincidence. According to the New York Times the epidemic "has striking peculiarly difficult inward New England as well as inward parts of Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania as well as West Virginia. Those are the places where fentanyl, a strong synthetic opioid, started to overflowing 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 inward fifteen to 44 year-olds inward each U.S. county. The map clearly reveals the higher than average set out of drug overdose deaths inward the north-east.