RecoveryOhio, an initiative of Governor DeWine, aims to coordinate the work of state departments, boards, and commissions in the administration of mental health and substance use treatment and prevention efforts. The Center for Community Solutions previously reported on The RecoveryOhio Strategic Plan 2024-2027, including objectives for the organization. One of the objectives included developing a predictive analytics dashboard utilizing toxicology data.
RecoveryOhio uses innovative risk map as a preventive model
On January 23, 2025, the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) and RecoveryOhio announced that RecoveryOhio’s Overdose Early Warning Dashboard had launched. Created in partnership with the InnovateOhio Platform (IOP) the dashboard utilizes data from emergency medical reports, socioeconomic indicators, naloxone administration, law enforcement data, and other sources to drive a predictive model that produces a color-coded risk map of Ohio Zip Codes. The colors are coded into five different risk-level categories. The five levels are low, minor, moderate, significant, or severe.
The dashboard allows data to be filtered by risk classification, zip code, or county.
The dashboard allows data to be filtered by risk classification, zip code, or county so that the user can focus on a particular geographical area or risk-level. Additionally, the dashboard provides the most offered services provided across the state or if a specific county is selected, it will provide the services offered in that county.
Which Zip codes are at greatest risk of overdose?
When looking at the Overdose Early Warning Dashboard for Cuyahoga County for January 2025, it indicates that 11 Zip codes have a severe risk of future drug overdoses, represented by the dark orange on the map, 10 Zip codes have a significant risk, which is illustrated by orange on the map, 2 Zip codes have a moderate risk, which shows up as light orange on the map, 8 have a minor risk, dark blue on the map, and 16 have a low risk, which is the light blue on the map. Any Zip code that is illustrated in white does not have enough data for the predictive model.
By moving from a place of reactively responding to coroners reporting a rise in drug overdose fatalities to proactively responding to drug trends provides local partners with a critical window for intervention to prevent overdose deaths. This new database will allow local health districts, hospitals, ADAMH boards, coroners’ offices, treatment providers, and others to work together to stop overdoses before they happen.
The Center for Community Solutions will continue to monitor the State of Ohio’s fight against the opioid epidemic and continue to advocate for behavioral health strategies that will save lives.
Behavioral health resources
- Free Naloxone/Fentanyl Test Strips: NaloxoneOhio or Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided With Naloxone)
- SAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-622-4357. Confidential, free, 24 hours day, 365 days a year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders. This service provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and community-based organizations.
- Ohio’s Take Charge Helpline: 1-877-275-6364. Confidential, free, 8:00am – 6:00pm, Monday – Friday. To get information about addiction and to get a referral to treatment.
- Ohio’s Crisis Text Line: Text 4hope to 741741 and a trained crisis counselor will text you within five minutes to confidentially assist you.
- Never Use Alone: 877-696-1996. Toll-free national overdose prevention, detection, life-saving crisis response and medical intervention services for people who use drugs while alone. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
