Basak Tas, Will Lawn, Elena V Traykova, Rebecca A S Evans, Barbara Murvai, Hollie Walker, John Strang
ISSUES: Opioid overdose kills over 100,000 people each year globally. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies and devices, including wearables, with the capacity to prevent, detect or respond to opioid overdose exist in early form, or could be re-purposed or designed. These technologies may particularly help those who use alone. For technologies to be successful, they must be effective and acceptable to the at-risk population. The aim of this scoping review is to identify published studies on mHealth technologies that attempt to prevent, detect or respond to opioid overdose...
March 18, 2023: Drug and Alcohol Review