A mobile app for finding addiction treatment
A mobile app for finding addiction treatment
A mobile app for finding addiction treatment
A mobile app for finding addiction treatment
A mobile app for finding addiction treatment
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A mobile app for finding addiction treatment
After seeing the death toll from opioids rise to 4-6 people per day in Massachusetts and knowing that nearly the same amount die from alcohol too daily in MA (88k/year in the US), I decided to join the Heroin is Killing My Town Facebook group (as well as several others). I saw that they posted the open detox beds daily but that the numbers changed frequently throughout the day. I realized I could create a mobile app for people to be able to look up the current open beds more easily.
The app has taken several months to develop; the Android version and the backend services in the cloud were developed between September and December 2016 at around a full time weekly commitment, and the iOS app was developed in January and February of 2017.
The app shows the current open beds listings for various types of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment options and the list is updated every 15 minutes from Massachusetts Behavioral Health Access. Not all providers keep their listings up to date, but maybe as the information is made more accessible this will begin to change.
The app also has listings for AA, NA and SMART Recovery meetings around Massachusetts. Each list is filterable by day and city.
More features are planned, but I need to know if this app is helpful and whether there are users of it before I spend more time on additional features.
To learn more about the app, please visit the web page: https://www.marsi.org