Tempe, Ariz., Wastewater Testing Yields Opioid Crisis Data

Jeremiah Lindemann's Opioid Mapping Initiative was featured in an article in GovTech:

"This sort of work is becoming more common across the country. Jeremiah Lindemann is a public interest technology fellow at New America who is coordinating a national opioid mapping initiative. Lindemann said Tempe is the first jurisdiction to his knowledge that’s functionally collection and using wastewater testing data in this way.

“It’s the closest thing to an early warning system a city can get,” Lindemann said of the work, “rather than death data or overdoses.”

In his capacity with the national opioid mapping project, he works with many local governments, and has for some time now. He said in general he’s noticed technology and data work to stop the opioid crisis from becoming broader, expanding into new preventative areas around treatment and helping likely repeat victims find resources."