In a Twitter question asking for ways journalists can assist in ending the heroin crisis, Grant Stancliff of Equality Ohio offers these thoughts:
Here’s what was heard on a tour of news outlets serving Ohio: There is wide disparity among Ohio’s 88 counties in the ability or interest in data analysis as a way to create an informed battle against the epidemic.
Reporter Jona Ison at the Chillicothe Gazette says not all counties have availed themselves of mental health dollars to track the use of Narcan. Her county, Ross, and her city police, are among those using data and research to change the conversation to one of recovery and abstinence.
In Washington Court House southwest of Columbus, reporter Ashley Bunton has been reporting on the police approach of arresting people for a civil disturbance when emergency workers must come to the scene of an overdose and administer Narcan.
Anyone know of ways to assess how these two starkly different approaches are working?
