About OEPS
About
The Opioid Environment Policy Scan (OEPS) is an open-source data warehouse to help characterize the multi-dimensional risk environment impacting opioid use and health outcomes across the United States.
The OEPS provides access to data at multiple spatial scales, from U.S. states down to Census tracts. It is designed to support research seeking to study environments impacting and impacted by opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD), inform public policy, and reduce harm in communities nationwide.
We developed the OEPS as a free, open-source platform to aggregate and share publicly-available data at the Census tract, zip code, county, and state levels. Geographic boundary shapefiles are provided for ease of merging datasets (csv files) for exploration, spatial analysis, or visualization. Download the entire data repository, or you can filter and download by theme or spatial scale. All datasets are accompanied by documentation detailing their source data, year, and more. Learn more about our methods and approaches, including the risk environment framework, on the Methodology page.
Open Source
All data, metadata descriptions, and code is available on our GitHub. As an open source project, we encourage users to add an issue on GitHub for questions, bugs, or data requests, or fork the repo to access locally.
The OEPS is led by the Healthy Regions and Policies Lab (HEROP) at the Center for Spatial Data Science at University of Chicago. It was developed for the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN), an NIH HEAL Initiative, as part of the Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center (MAARC). Data and additional resources are also available to the JCOIN Network through the JCOIN Data Commons.
Contributors include Moksha Menghaney and Angela Li, as well as Research Assistants (RAs) Margot Bolanos Gamez, Alexa Jin, Ally Muszynski, and Rachel Vigil.
Learn more about the HEROP team.
Contact
Submit an issue on GitHub, or email Susan Paykin with any questions.
Citation
Susan Paykin, Dylan Halpern, Qinyun Lin, Moksha Menghaney, Angela Li, Rachel Vigil, Margot Bolanos Gamez, Alexa Jin, Ally Muszynski, and Marynia Kolak. (2022). GeoDaCenter/opioid-policy-scan: Opioid Environment Policy Scan (OEPS) Data Warehouse (v1.0). Zenodo.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5842465
This research was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, through the NIH HEAL Initiative under award number UG3DA123456. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH, the Initiative, or the participating sites.