Next Upcoming Event
Mental Health First Aid – Youth
| Date | June 12, 2025 |
| Time | 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Location | Williamsburg Health Foundation |
Providing data and methods needed to understand and address health risks helps identify trends, predict outbreaks, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. Specifically, statistics is used to analyze data, identify risk factors, track disease patterns, and measure the performance of preventive programs.
The leading source of population-based statistical data on alcohol, tobacco, drug use, mental health, and other behavioral health information.
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports data on fatalities involving drugs commonly associated with fatal overdose.
The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) monitors and reports data on drug overdose deaths.
Data are from death certificates. Data on this dashboard are Virginia residents only. These deaths include Virginia residents who died in Virginia or out of state.
The nonfatal drug overdose data on this dashboard come from CDC's Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology DOSE system, which captures electronic health record information in syndromic surveillance systems.