Keeping track of your neighbors who overdose.
To be fair, it's not in any creepy way or anything -- it's just that the county where I live made an interactive map of everyone who od'd in '16. So now you can zoom in and see how close the epidemic is to coming to your particular 'hood. Just one glance will show you that the only way to escape this particular plague of heroin laced with extra deadly goodies is to head out to live with the gators in the glades.
In case you don't know, it's not just happening here -- although it is happening a LOT in this area. The county just one north of this one is worried it may not have enough morgue space as it deals with record breaking days like the one where they had ten overdoses at one time. (Which, by the way, actually makes sense as there tends to be a bad batch of drugs that hits the street at the same time leading to multiple deaths in rapid succession.)
Far be it from me to pretend I understand the whole epidemic and whether it's truly just the second coming of the pill mill activity that ran rampant in soFlo at the beginning of this decade or if it's the onset of a little apocalypse-style action ... but it does make me wish that they would hurry up and get the legal weed out to people since overdosing on that wouldn't be quite so deadly (and would be a hell of a lot more giggly).
Stay safe out there people!
"THERE'S A VERY HIGH CHANCE THAT YOU WILL DIE":
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-dff-overdosemap-0419-20170405-story.html
MY COUNTY'S INTERACTIVE MAP:
http://bcgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=0471c198475844cb9e27002ab140c47c
AND THE COUNTY UP NORTH IS ALSO STRUGGLING:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-pn-heroin-emergency-20170322-story.html
