In this cohort study of patients treated for opioid overdose, OORP implementation was associated with an increase in MOUD initiation and a decrease in repeat medically treated overdoses. The large variation in outcomes across hospitals suggests that treatment effects were heterogeneous and may depend on factors such as implementation success, program embeddedness, and availability of other hospital- and community-based OUD services.
Topic
opioid addiction
NJSPL – Intelligent Help for the Opioid Crisis Lifecycle
An important line of defense against the opioid problem is the prevention of overdose deaths following abuse and addiction. It is possible to make this happen using informatics, robotics, and AI technologies for prevention, identification, treatment, and rehabilitation.
Prof. Samuel Warns AI Needs to Balance Utility and Privacy in Opioid Overdose Tracking
The Daily Beast asks "Are the AI models ready for Primetime?". In "How Bots Can Prevent Opioid Overdoses Before They Happen," Maddie Bender looks at one of the leading causes of death in America and how AI can help through a program called "Hotspotting the Opioid...
New Jersey State Policy Lab: Using Creative Informatics and Artificial Intelligence to Address the Drug Addiction Crisis in New Jersey
New Jersey has a persistent substance addiction problem which must be viewed in the context of laws, policies, and initiatives implemented to address it.
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