Baker-Polito administration releases opioid epidemic data
Boston — The Baker-Polito administration has released the website “The Massachusetts Opioid Epidemic: A data visualization of findings from the Chapter 55 report.” The site is designed to complement the recent release of the Chapter 55 Report, a product of the Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2015 signed into law by Governor Baker in August 2015.
The site, produced by a Massachusetts Office of Information Technology and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) partnership, is a multimedia resource that illustrates and explains the complex nature of the disease of addiction, the role that legal prescription medications and illegal substances play in the epidemic, its impact across the demographic spectrum in Massachusetts, and the steps being taken to address this fundamental public health crisis in communities across the state. Led by DPH, the Chapter 55 analysis involved 10 datasets from five different government agencies. In total, 29 groups from government, higher education and the private sector provided information and expertise.
