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Looking at opioid abuse data in San Diego to chart the human toll
posted 02/29/2016

Working with data, it’s often easy to forget that each entry represents a real human being. An opioid abuse epidemic like the one taking place in San Diego isn’t just a statistically significant outlier — it’s a series of individual human tragedies.

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Looking at opioid abuse data in San Diego to chart the human toll
Working with data, it’s often easy to forget that each entry represents a real human being. An... more »
posted 02/29/16

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Lesson: Use this step-by-step data guide to chronicle the opioid epidemic in your community
Data journalist Leonardo Castaneda offers reporters a detailed tutorial on how to analyze — and then map — data from any county's medical examiner's office on opioid-related deaths.
Lesson: Sedated in San Diego: Lessons from reporting on opioid addiction
A data-driven look at opioid addiction in San Diego found that old assumptions about addiction hotspots were outdated. Reporter Leo Castaneda shares this and other field lessons he learned along the way.
Project: How opioid devastation caught San Diego County communities unaware
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