Baltimore County Releases New Opioid Overdose Data Dashboard

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski released a caller information dashboard Tuesday to show elaborate accusation astir opioid overdose, some fatal and nonfatal, successful the county.

Officials said the caller dashboard is acceptable to grow efforts to supply accusation to the nationalist and summation transparency.

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“Every opioid overdose decease is the tragic nonaccomplishment of a loved one. We anticipation this latest dashboard not lone provides residents with entree to this captious accusation but besides informs our enactment and the enactment of assemblage partners arsenic we proceed combatting this deadly epidemic,” Olszewski said. “Many acknowledgment to our BCSTAT information team, arsenic good arsenic the Baltimore County Health and Police Departments for moving unneurotic to make this tool, providing the nationalist with entree to this important information and further advancing our administration’s propulsion for much accessible and unfastened government.”

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The dashboard was developed by Baltimore County’s BCSTAT squad and shows overdoses reported to constabulary from 2017 done 2021.  Data for this twelvemonth presently reports accusation connected overdoses from Jan. done Sept. Residents who endure an overdose extracurricular of Baltimore County are not included successful this data.

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The dashboard is expected to beryllium updated quarterly and tin beryllium viewed here. 

CBS Baltimore Staff