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fromSun Sentinel
8 hours ago

How a Florida nonprofit wants AI to warn communities in real time about drug use

A Florida nonprofit launched Drug TRAC, an AI using urine test data to alert communities in real time about dangerous drug trends to prevent deaths.
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award

By his own description, Nabarun Dasgupta digs through drug overdose data obsessively, scrutinizing the latest numbers from around the U.S. for clues about America's deadly overdose crisis. In 2024, the researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of the first scientists in the country to realize something new was happening: "I was going through [reports] state-by-state and all the graphs kind of pointed downwards," Dasgupta told NPR.
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