Opioid Crisis in Green County
The Healthy Community Coalition of Green County, WI, has identified reducing substance
abuse as a high priority goal (Green County, 2018). Opioid use in particular is concerning;
Wisconsin as a whole is in the midst of a drug overdose epidemic driven by opioids (Wisconsin
DHS, 2017). Between 2013-2015, Green County had 7 overdose deaths involving opioids with a
rate of 6.3 opioid overdose deaths per 100,000 persons.
There has been a ten-fold rise in Green Country ho...
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- University University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Program UniverCity Year
- Sustainable Development Goals 03 Good Health and Well-Being
- Population Type Residents
- Focus Areas Equity
- Discipline Population Health Sciences
- University Department Public Health
- Lead Local Gov / Community Partner Org Name Green County