Fig. 2.

“All east” is the three-year lagged pooled synthetic narcotic mortality rate across all states that lie entirely east of the Mississippi River, as well Minnesota, Louisiana, and the District of Columbia. “Top 10″ is the three-year lagged pooled synthetic narcotic mortality across 10 jurisdictions with highest population-adjusted synthetic narcotics mortality rate in 2018 (Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, District of Columbia, Connecticut, Rhode Island).