Researchers Develop App to Detect Opioid Overdose #seciencefather #americanscientist

 Researchers are hopeful that a newly developed smartphone app can help fight the deadly opioid epidemic that's ravaging communities across America.

A team at the University of Washington announced that technology in what's believed to be the first overdose-detecting cellphone app, called Second Chance. The research published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, an interdisciplinary medical journal, details how the app sends sound waves from a cellphone to a person's chest and then tracks how the waves return to the phone to identify specific changes in breathing patterns.



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