Media Reports

How a new app could help prevent opioid overdoses in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Sep-9-2020
Can a smartphone app help save lives? Philly researchers have an overdose-reversal tool set for citywide testing. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug-10-2020
Israeli prof blazes trail to help heroin overdosers, says anyone can save a life. Times of Israel, Aug-10-2020
Trained residents, an app and naloxone can save lives, study finds.  Health Crisis Alert, Aug-7-2020
Study: UnityPhilly app can help fight America's opioid crisis.  News Medical Life Sciences, Aug-6-2020
​Una aplicación podría ayudar contra la crisis de opiáceos.  Consalud.es, Aug-6-2020
Can community members deliver naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses?  Eurekalert, Aug-5-2020
Israeli and US Researchers Find Way to Fight Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths.  Breaking Israel News, Aug-4-2020
Researchers create app that alerts naloxone-trained volunteers to overdoses.  EMS1, Aug-3-2020
Properly-equipped laypersons can potentially reverse opioid overdose mortality.  Eurekalert, Aug-3,-2020
App links overdosing people to nearby volunteers with naloxone. Clinical Psychiatry News, Jul-2-2020
A Drexel-made smartphone app to reduce overdose deaths in Philly.  BillyPenn, Feb-15-2019

Research Articles and Presentations

Layperson reversal of opioid overdose supported by smartphone alert: A prospective observational cohort study (2020).  Schwartz, D.G., Ataiants, J., Roth, A., Marcu, G., Yahav, I., Cocchiaro, B., Khalemsky, M., & Lankenau, S.  EClinicalMedicine, p.100474.

Acceptability of smartphone applications for facilitating layperson naloxone administration during opioid overdoses (2020). Marcu, G., Aizen, R., Roth, A.M., Lankenau, S., & Schwartz, D.G. JAMIA Open, 3(1), pp.44-52.

Developing and testing a smartphone app to deliver naloxone to opioid overdose victims in Philadelphia (2020). Lankenau, S., Schwartz, D., Roth, A., Marcu, G., Yahav, I., Ataiants, J., & Tenenboim, D. In CPDD Oral & Late Breaking Abstracts. 1st College on Problems of Drug Dependence 2020 Virtual Scientific Meeting (June 22-24).

Opioid use and rescue behaviors of lay responders in an app-based overdose prevention intervention  (2020). Ataiants, J., Schwartz, D., Roth, A., Marcu, G.,  Yahav, I., Tenenboim, D., & Lankenau, S.E. Poster presentation at the 1st College on Problems of Drug Dependence 2020 Virtual Scientific Meeting (June 22-24). 
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Developing and testing a mobile phone app to deliver naloxone to opioid overdose victims in Philadelphia (2019). Lankenau, S., Schwartz, D., Roth, A., Marcu, G., Yahav, I., Reed, M., Ataiants, J., Correa, C., Hosey, R., & Tenenboim, D. In American Public Health Association's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo (Nov. 2-Nov. 6).

Combatting opioid overdose deaths with a community-based app for naloxone sharing: Initial field trial results (2019). Schwartz, D.G., Lankenau, S., Roth, A., Marcu, G., Yahav, I., Reed, M., Ataiants, J., Correa, C., Hosey, R., & Tenenboim, D. Keynote presentation at Health Information Technology Symposium, International Conference on Information Systems, Munich, Germany (December 15).

Designing an Emergency Response Community for Opioid Overdoses in Philadelphia (2018).  Aizen, R., Marcu, G., Misra, A., Sieber, G., Schwartz, D.G., Roth, A., & Lankenau, S. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW048, 1–6. 

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