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

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

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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