A Look at Heroin Abuse in Our State
Over the past few months I’ve posted several graphics and charts about heroin abuse in our state. I thought it would be good to put together a brief synopsis, of the various graphs and maps I’ve done.
Heroin abuse doesn’t effect all counties equally, indeed some counties are particularly hard hit.
Overall in the past decade, heroin deaths are up dramatically across the state.
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Indeed, heroin is the fastest growing reason people are checking themselves into drug rehab facilties in our state.
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The growth of heroin has displaced the abuse of cocaine and crack in our state.
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Despite common myth, drug possession arrests nationally follow closely the racial breakdown, at least in 2015.
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3 Comments
First map doesn’t tell me anything. need legend
Oh I get it, hover over the points on the graphs; Queens 112. Nassau 81. Oh man. Jeez in 2014, Kings County, 155. Kings County. My birth county. Not in my neighborhood growing up that I knew about.
Yeap. I need to develop a way to display the Google Maps legend. I’m sure there is a way to do it, as there used to be way to do it before they changed how the program worked.