How healthcare apps are helping drug users transition from addiction to recovery


As a society, we are faced with many challenges, and it’s no secret that one of the more prevalent is that of substance abuse. Amongst the most dangerous and holistically destructive of these behaviors, affecting multiple facets of our social landscape from individual health and wellbeing to pressure on already strained infrastructure, is opioid addiction. It’s an issue that has become so concerning that in 2018, the FDA presented an innovation challenge to technology developers to help address its prevention and treatment.  Historically, our reactions to this issue have not been particularly subtle—from the blunt changes in legislation to forced rehabilitation as part…

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