Battling Drug Abuse: New technology helps cope with addiction
Updated 20:56, 29-Jun-2018
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Augmented Reality is included in the preventive and diagnostic methods at a drug rehabilitation center in Sichuan. 15 minutes can help doctors get a clear idea of a user's condition. Jiang Shaoyi has more.
Gearing up for the fight against drug abuse. The goggles present the wearer with possible scenarios of the temptation to use drugs again. The machine then collects real-time data through heart rate, brain waves, and electrodermal response, which is from the skin.
LI DAI, TECHNICIAN SICHUAN WOMEN'S COMPULSORY DRUG TREATMENT CENTER "While they see the scene in person, the individual's drug addiction can reawaken. We will use AR for twelve courses of systematic training until the individuals no longer have the desire."
This is part of the procedure before individuals leave the center. The system will file reports for each one tested. The higher the score, the stronger the addiction.
LI DAI, TECHNICIAN SICHUAN WOMEN'S COMPULSORY DRUG TREATMENT CENTER "Each chart is a report about one individual. The level of addiction is determined on a scale from zero to one hundred. We think below twenty percent means the level is relatively low, and above is a mid- to high level of desire. From this graph, we can see most people fall between ten to twenty percent, and twenty to thirty percent."
The rehabilitation center is the first in China to use AR to battle addiction against a specific type of drug --- methamphetamines. With big data and AR, the center hopes to help individuals come clean and stay clean.
JSY, CGTN.