The Ohio Department of Health has delivered two years of data on drug and alcohol-induced deaths for the Your Voice Ohio project.
Playing with sorts to think about how best to analyze the numbers.
Here’s one early sort: Of all overdose deaths, no matter intentional, suicide, heroin or other, 46 percent of people are someplace other than home.
Go with it in a story? Sounds like a simple sort, but it’s not. Many are taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. We don’t know if actual death occurred at home, or otherwise.
So, lots of cautions.
Nonetheless, can we determine which kinds of overdoses are most likely to occur elsewhere, and if so, where do they go? Are people in some counties more likely to die at home? With answers to these questions, can we create better solutions?
