OEPS: Opioid Environment Policy Scan Data Ecosystem

The Opioid Environment Policy Scan (OEPS) is an open-source data ecosystem to help characterize the multi-dimensional risk environment impacting opioid use and health outcomes across the United States. OEPS provides access to data at multiple spatial scales, from U.S. states down to Census tracts. It is designed to support research seeking to study environments impacting and impacted by opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD), inform public policy, and reduce harm in communities nationwide. We developed OEPS as a free, open-source platform to aggregate and share publicly-available data at the Census tract, zip code, county, and state levels. Geographic boundary shapefiles are provided for ease of merging datasets for exploration, spatial analysis, or visualization.