AlphaLab startup using AI to prevent drug addicts from relapsing

Just last week, President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency. With a heroin addict relapse rate of 90 percent and a 650 percent increase in emergency room visits for the drug since 1990, said Jeremy Guttman, there must be some pattern.

Technology could help disrupt such tragedy, the entrepreneur said. A startup he helped co-found, Behaivior, uses pattern-recognition machine learning to predict and prevent relapse and overdose through Fitbit-like wearables.

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Felicia Savage Friedman