County-level data on U.S. opioid distributions, demographics, healthcare supply, and healthcare access

Published: 4 January 2021| Version 2 | DOI: 10.17632/dwfgxrh7tn.2
Contributor:
Kevin Griffith

Description

This repository includes data from the Health Resources & Services Administration's Area Health Resources Files (years 2000, 2004-2019), CDC Wonder, National Conference of State Legislatures, and the Drug Enforcement Agency's Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS). Please cite the following publication when using this dataset: KN Griffith, Y Feyman, SG Auty, EL Crable, TW Levengood. (in press). County-level data on U.S. opioid distributions, demographics, healthcare supply, and healthcare access, Data in Brief. These data were originally collected for the following research article: Griffith, KN, Feyman, Y, Crable, EL, & Levengood, TW. (in press). “Implications of county-level variation in U.S. opioid distribution.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

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Steps to reproduce

1. Download data 2. Run R script "AHRF Prepper 11-28-20.R" to combine the annual AHRF datasets 3. Run R script "DIB Data Prep 11-28-20.R" to combine AHRF, ARCOS, WONDER, and NCSL datasets

Categories

Public Health, Health, Opioid, Health Services Research, Pain Management, Prescription Medication, Opioid Abuse, Prescription Drug Abuse, Drug Overdose

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