Table 1.

Description of counties

	Intervention county	Comparison county
Population per square mile86	84	88
Total population age 18 or older86	22 252	19 815
Per cent living in poverty86	30	21
Rural–urban continuum code (range: 1–9)87	7	7
Percentage of population that is rural86	72	65
White, non-Hispanic (%)86	94	92
Per cent of population who speaks English at home88	97	96
Number of HIV cases (total)89	34	29
Number of opioid overdose deaths (2020–2022)90	53	48
Number of opioid overdose emergency department admissions (2021)91	27	35
Number of buprenorphine providers92	15	10
Average number of SSP clients per month93	90	94

SSP, syringe service programme.