As an analyst for Wisconsin's Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) program, I created this report for local health departments. As part of the OFR project, local health departments across the state select overdose fatality cases from their county and review the death in partnership with other agencies such as law enforcement, social and behavioral health services, healthcare, and substance-use treatment services. The goal is to better understand the circumstances of the overdose death and make recommendations for how future overdose deaths could be prevented.

Since a health department typically does not review all of it's overdose fatalities, this report was developed in order to help local health departments determine whether their OFR cases reviewed were representative of broader overdose fatality trends in the county, including decedent demographics, location of overdose, and substances involved.

Data in this report have been scrambled in order to protect the privacy of individuals. To build the report, I used open-source tools like d3.js and R's awesome r2d3 package.