With nearly 300 people in the U.S. dying of drug overdoses every day, authorities are hoping to make a dent in the crisis by sharing information in real time to predict where the next cluster of deaths may be and prevent at least some of them.
which uses EMS call data to compare county and state overdose information with a national average. The data does not pinpoint precisely where overdoses are happening and it has a two-week time lag. But anyone can view it to identify areas where tainted drugs may be circulating.
“The public knowing what’s going on in real time is greatly, greatly beneficial to lifesaving efforts,” Beeson said. “The more information we have, the better we are.”But information gaps persist in most small and rural health departments, which do not have advanced tools, said Lori Freeman, chief executive of the National Association of County and City Health Officials., they have hurt the response to the overdose epidemic, she said.
It has been slow to get off the ground, however. Members of the National League of Cities had not heard about the dashboard in advance of its release, Some local efforts are more unusual: In 2017, Baltimore launched an anonymous text-alert system to warn people of “bad batches” of drugsthanks to video game programmer Michael LeGrand, co-founder of the local nonprofit “Code in the Schools,” which teaches city students computer science skills. The service, in coordination with the city’s health department, analyzes data from EMS reports of nonfatal overdose spikes on a one-day lag.
In Cary, N.C., an affluent suburb of Raleigh that is home to many people who work in the area’s Research Triangle,
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