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Utah medical examiner and SIAC outline uptick in fentanyl involvement, plan quarterly dashboard
Summary
SIAC and the state medical examiner described plans for a Power BI dashboard to shorten data validation cycles and presented 2023 statistics: 606 overdose deaths in Utah (a 14.5% increase vs. 2022), with fentanyl involved in about 47.9% of those deaths and growing polysubstance involvement.
State data and forensic evidence presented at the webinar underscored rising fentanyl involvement in Utah overdose deaths and described a planned public data dashboard.
Ethan Tamez, supervisor of the organized crime section at the State Information Analysis Center (SIAC), said his group is building an interactive Power BI dashboard to display seizure and encounter data. “So the dashboard will be Power BI based...it’ll be interactive for anyone that does access it on the DPS website,”…
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