Unfortunately depression, drug poisoning and suicide affect many individuals across Virginia. CSBs may use the charts below to understand the prevalence of suicide deaths in their service region. The graphs below show the suicide deaths in each of the five (5) Health Planning Regions. On each graph, the bars represent the number of suicide deaths by drug [...]
What we are working on: Thank you to everyone who participated in the Behavioral Health Atlas webinar series. We received great feedback on those webinars, and are now working on the following items in response to your questions: Clarifications to the Behavioral Health Atlas data, particularly where data are available only at the city/county level [...]
Substance use, particularly drug poisoning, issues are now at the forefront of recent health care policy discussions. The graphic shown below displays a trend analysis of drug poisoning deaths by drug (cocaine, heroin, methadone) from 2010 - 2013 for each Health Planning Region (HPR). As shown below, deaths involving Heroin drug overdose have increased in all HPRs [...]
Individuals are served not only in the CSBs, but also in other practice settings such as local Health Departments and safety net clinics. CSBs work with consumers to manage and prevent outcomes (e.g. communicable diseases) related to unhealthy behaviors. CSBs may use the chart below to draw insight to the prevalence of communicable diseases in their service [...]