Overdose

Drug Overdose Problem in Riverside County

Drug abuse and its related problems are among society’s most pervasive health and social concerns. Causes of drug-induced deaths include dependent and non-dependent use of drugs (both legal and illegal use) and also poisoning from medically prescribed drugs. Addicted persons frequently engage in self-destructive and criminal behavior, which can result in injury or death. In addition, recreational drug-use can lead to unintentional overdose and death.

Objectives :

1. Collecting data from various public sources for data relating to drug overdose issues in Riverside county, in California, and in the nation, for trend analysis and for comparison

2. Comparing Riverside to other counties in California

Drug Overdoes trends in Riverside

Cause-of-death between 1999 to present were coded using the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases codes (ICD-10). Cause-of-death between 1989 and 1998 were coded using the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Deseases Codes (ICD-9).

Dictionary_Causes of Death

HTD Diseases of the Heart CAN Malignant Neoplasms (Cancers) STK Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke) CLD Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease (CLRD) INJ Unintentional Injuries PNF Pneumonia and Influenza DIA Diabetes Mellitus ALZ Alzheimer’s Disease LIV Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis SUI Intentional Self Harm (Suicide) HYP Essential Hypertension and Hypertensive Renal Disease HOM Homicide NEP Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome and Nephrosis CPD Chronic pulmonary disease OTH All Other Causes of Death

## 'data.frame':    176460 obs. of  5 variables:
##  $ Year    : int  1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 1989 ...
##  $ Zip_code: Factor w/ 1811 levels "90001","90002",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
##  $ Cause   : Factor w/ 12 levels "AID","CAN","CPD",..: 6 2 11 7 10 3 1 8 12 4 ...
##  $ Count   : int  108 61 21 19 10 12 7 9 5 8 ...
##  $ Location: Factor w/ 1698 levels "","(32.562567, -117.042976)",..: 358 358 358 358 358 358 358 358 358 358 ...

## Warning: NAs introduced by coercion

## # A tibble: 120 x 3
## # Groups:   Year [10]
##     Year Cause Total
##    <int> <fct> <int>
##  1  1989 AID     641
##  2  1989 CAN   10480
##  3  1989 CPD    2251
##  4  1989 DIA     599
##  5  1989 HOM     513
##  6  1989 HTD   14489
##  7  1989 INJ    2267
##  8  1989 LIV     804
##  9  1989 OTH    6767
## 10  1989 PNF    2415
## # ... with 110 more rows

##     Year Cause Total
##  1: 1989   AID   641
##  2: 1989   CAN 10480
##  3: 1989   CPD  2251
##  4: 1989   DIA   599
##  5: 1989   HOM   513
##  6: 1989   HTD 14489
##  7: 1989   INJ  2267
##  8: 1989   LIV   804
##  9: 1989   OTH  6767
## 10: 1989   PNF  2415
## 11: 1989   STK  3249
## 12: 1989   SUI   851

##     Year Cause Total
##  1: 1998   AID  1130
##  2: 1998   CAN 11196
##  3: 1998   CPD  1820
##  4: 1998   DIA   378
##  5: 1998   HOM   265
##  6: 1998   HTD 15178
##  7: 1998   INJ  2663
##  8: 1998   LIV   707
##  9: 1998   OTH  8358
## 10: 1998   PNF  3012
## 11: 1998   STK  3453
## 12: 1998   SUI   691

Time Trend Plots

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