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Opioid Epidemic On The First Coast, Jeremiah Baclig, Noah Dedeo, Rukhaiya Husain, Iliya Kulbaka, Michelle Dedeo
Opioid Epidemic On The First Coast, Jeremiah Baclig, Noah Dedeo, Rukhaiya Husain, Iliya Kulbaka, Michelle Dedeo
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The nation has been focusing on the opioid epidemic for many years. Aggregate quarterly data on opioid distribution at a general level has been available through the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) but cannot be used to do analyses on the effects of opioids in local areas. Quantifying impacts of the opioid epidemic at the local level has never been easy: what little data was provided by the DEA was not user-friendly, overly broad and did not follow the desired timeline of data collection. This project focuses on database exploration and uses statistical methods and Decision Tree …