Successful Naloxone Reversals by Law Enforcement Years 2014 - June 2018 County Drug and Alcohol Program

data.pa.gov | Last Updated 18 Oct 2022

This dataset reports number of successful naloxone reversals by police officers, as self-reported by municipal police departments, Capitol Police, and Pennsylvania State police. The data is stratified by county and by year. Note that there is no legislation mandating that law enforcement report naloxone reversals to DDAP; these data represent voluntary self-reports from departments. NA - Not applicable. No FIPS code or county code exist for Pennsylvania State Police and Capitol Police. Also, counties labelled “NA” do not have municipal police departments and are only covered by Pennsylvania State Police.

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This dataset has the following 8 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
County NamecountytextGeographic region in Pennsylvania representing where the naloxone reversal event took place.
County FIPS codecounty_fips_codetextThe FIPS county code is a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code (FIPS 6-4) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States, certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states. 42000=Pennsylvania, 42001=Adams, 42003=Allegheny,…42133=York. Not applicable. No FIPS code or county code exist for Pennsylvania State Police and Capitol Police.
County codecounty_codetextTwo-digit code which uniquely identifies each county. 01=Adams, 02=Allegheny,…67=York. Not applicable. No FIPS code or county code exist for Pennsylvania State Police and Capitol Police. '00'- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Latitude/LongitudelocationlocationLatitude and longitude; one random point within each county to help create a map of Pennsylvania counties and define boundary lines.
Date reviseddate_revisedtextDate (month/day/year) of most recent data collection per county. Most data are revised quarterly.
YearyeartextRepresents calendar year (January- December) for 2016 and 2017 data collection. 2014-2015 data represents November 2014-December 2015, and 2014-2017 data represents November 2014-December 2017, as data collection began in November 2014.
Number of successful reversalsnumber_of_successful_reversalsnumberTotal number of successful naloxone reversals during the period indicated for that year. If the field is null, no data was collected.
Police Coveragepolice_coveragetextPercentage of police departments within each county whose officers carry naloxone. “No coverage” means there are municipal PD located in those counties, but 0% carry naloxone. “Partial coverage” means some, but not all (1-99%) of the municipal PD in those counties carry naloxone. “Full coverage” means that all (100%) of municipal PDs in those counties carry naloxone. Prior to 2017 data was not collected and stored