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Published September 30, 2025 | Version 2.2
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OEPS: Opioid Environment Policy Scan Data Ecosystem

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2. ROR icon University of Chicago
  • 3. ROR icon National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • 4. ROR icon University of Illinois Chicago
  • 5. University of Gothenburg

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2. ROR icon University of Chicago

Description

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.

Series information (English)

This release contains a number of data updates, a new documentation site, and some important registry restructuring that was necessary to accommodate the publication year and spatial joins.

Main updates

  • Update all age groups (and other demographics) to be uniform across all time periods #136
  • A big metadata file overhaul
    • @adrita13 and @Makosak standardize language and variable inclusion across all files.
    • These files are now transferred to this repository.
  • Multiple changes to the backend app and registry by @mradamcox
    • Created a new documentation site to fully describe the backend app and registry: https://healthyregions.github.io/oeps
    • Refactor many aspects of the registry, and add better typing within the Python client by implementing pydantic
  • To ease content management and updates, implement PagesCMS for editing metadata and variable entries
  • Create two "data packages" that aggregate a predetermined suite of variables at specific data years.
    • Full details at #201, and the source tickets are #115 and #129.
    • Zipped versions of these data packages are also attached to this release.

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Additional details

Funding

National Institute on Drug Abuse
MAARC 2.0 5UM1DA050098-03
National Institute on Drug Abuse
MAARC 1.0 UG3DA123456

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/healthyregions/oeps/releases/tag/v2.2
Development Status
Active