‘There’s a Sense of Urgency’: How Wearables Could Reshape Addiction Treatment

Chris Larson

Wearables offer addiction treatment providers tantalizing opportunities to improve care outcomes.

 

Increasingly sophisticated devices are now available at affordable price points. Effortless data collection opens the door to more objectivity in a highly subjective field.

 

But there’s a serious problem. Researchers and practitioners still need to figure out what to do with the mountains of data that wearables could produce.

 

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Chris Larson

Behavioral Health Business

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Victoria is CEO of Mental Health Innovations, the charity behind SHOUT, the UK’s first 24/7 crisis text service. From 2011 to 2017, she was Director of Programmes at The Royal Foundation, building a portfolio of projects including the Invictus Games, Coach Core, United for Wildlife and Heads Together.