A new tool is out from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP) to help further fight the opioid epidemic.
The two organizations announced the launch of its interactive Overdose Data Dashboard. The dashboard highlights the impact of substance use disorder on communities and will help identify locations that would benefit from initiatives such as Quick Response Teams and drug intervention programs, per release.
According to officials, the dashboard provides statewide information that can be filtered to the county level and contains detailed statistics about the victim such as age group, month and day of the week the suspected overdose occurred, the level of medical treatment, outcome, and if naloxone was administered.