https://medium.com/futuretech-upenn/medical-technologies-to-solve-the-opioid-crisis-fc9c41a933a2

Camille Cassard is a senior and a University Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Political Science and French. Her research focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on health and immigration policies.

In 2016, approximately 11.5 million Americans misused prescription opioids, including 1.8 million people who had a substance use disorder related to a prescription pain reliever. We are currently living through a devastating opioid crisis in the US with the number of overdose related deaths failing to subside. While not all opioid addictions result from prescriptions, a large number of people become addicted to opioids after being prescribed them by a doctor.