Data Visualization of mortality from drug poisoning across the USA.

1. Drug Poisoning
Mortality
Nick Swink, Sydney Peterson, Alaina Soldner

2. How has Drug Poisoning Mortality
changed from 1999?
● Has it gotten better or worse?
● Which States have more problems
● Which ages or races die more from drug
poisoning?

3. NCHS Drug Poisoning Mortality by State
● It is from Data.gov
● Deaths are broken down by State, age, sex,
and of course year.
● The distinction between State and age are
helpful for our use

4. Analysis
● Crude death rate is total number
of deaths per year per 1,000
people

5. What about race?
● Non-hispanic white
people have the most
deaths from drug
poisoning
● Drug deaths from
white people are
larger than black and
hispanics combined

6. Crude Death rate by State
● Eastward shift of drug deaths from 1999 to
2015
● West Virginia holds to largest drug deaths in
2015

7. Conclusions
● Drug poisoning is getting worse year by year
● 45-54 years old is the most common age to die from drug poisoning
● There has been an eastward shift in drug related deaths since 1999
● More white people die from drugs than black and hispanic people
combined

8. Sources
● Data, NCHS. “NCHS - Drug Poisoning Mortality by State: United States.” Datasets -
Data.gov, Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 Aug. 2018,
catalog.data.gov/dataset/drug-poisoning-mortality-u-s-and-state-trends-united-
states-20022014.
● Wikipedia . “Age Adjustment.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Sept. 2017,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_adjustment.

9. Drug Mortality in America