Opioid overdose rate by county 2012-2016

If you’ve got a couple minutes, Michael Meit has a favor to ask. He’ll try not to take up too much of your time.  “What I want is for people to go to the online tool, click on their county, pull up that 8 ½-by-11 fact sheet, and send it to all their local elected officials, health department staff, medical personnel, and others,” Meit said.  And? “Start a community dialog about drug overdose deaths in their community,” Meit said. Meit, co-director of the Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, is part of an initiative launched last week that provides a county-by-county look at the impact of opioid deaths across the country. A press release calls the project the “first ever interactive data visualization of national county-level opioid overdose mortality rates.”