Claire Ng

Members: Rinni and Victor

Healthcare Innovation: Automatic Pill Dispenser to prevent drug overdose

National Institute on Drug Abuse. “Overdose Death Rates.” August 09, 2018. NIDA. https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a U.S. federal government research institute that aims to educate the public on the effects and science behind drug abuse and addiction. The institution works to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug abuse and addiction to improve overall public health. They also do clinical research and study the social factors, behavioral, and neurobiological effects involved. This source particularly focuses on describing the responsibility doctors have when giving out prescription drugs. The article also explains the structure and organizations that help monitor the giving out of prescription drugs, like the PDMPs, and other basic key words that will further support our study. The article also references several ways the government has tried to prevent prescription drug abuse which can be reference in our healthcare innovation.

National Institute on Drug Abuse. “How Can Prescription Drug Misuse Be Prevented?” NIDA. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/misuse-prescription-drugs/how-can-prescription-drug-misuse-be-prevented.

Like the previous source, the National Institute on Drug Abuse is a U.S. government institution that works to develop and educate the public on drug abuse and addiction in order to create a better world for public health. This source mainly revolves around stats and data regarding death rates due to overdose on drugs and prescription drugs — the most recent study from August of 2018. The source provides several graphs and tables for the provided data. This source will back up our healthcare innovation with such concrete data when describing the effects of drug abuse and why our innovation is so important.

Chinneck, A, Thompson, K, Mahu, IT, Davis-MacNevin, P, Dobson, K, Stewart, SH. 2018. “Personality and prescription drug use/misuse among first year undergraduates.” Addictive Behaviors (87): 122-130

The most notable author is Annie Chinneck. She is a PH.D student at Dalhousie University in Canada. She studies the psychological factors that affect alcohol abuse, gambling, prescription drug misuse, and more. She has won awards for her these studies and has published a previous article from 2014 involving the connection between depression and gambling and their ties with drug abuse. This article focuses on the causes and effects prescription drug abuse has on “emerging adults” from the ages of 18-25 year olds. The study focuses on those attending college/university and the greater risk they may have. The article also focuses on the different types of prescription drugs that are misused. This article will further support our healthcare innovation since it will give more specificity on the types of prescription drugs that are misused as well as the psychological effects that come with it.