A new tool from the state of Ohio aims to help officials proactively address heightened drug overdose risk in local communities. RecoveryOhio’s Overdose Early Warning Dashboard is a “first-of-its-kind resource, designed to predict when a community is at heightened risk for drug overdoses,” according to a release. Utilizing the dashboard, local leaders can take action early and save lives. Fueling the dashboard’s predictive model are various data sources, including emergency medical reports, naloxone administration, socioeconomic indicators and law enforcement data. The model uses these sources to forecast when Ohio ZIP codes are at an increased risk for overdoses up to 30 days in advance, and it generates a color-coded map categorizing ZIP codes into five risk levels: Low, minor, moderate, significant and severe.
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