Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US, with 52,404 lethal drug overdoses in 2015. Of those deaths, 20,000 were due to opioid. Opioid dependence and associated drug-related overdose and deaths are serious public health problems in the United States.
Our research is focused on individuals who want to get treatment but struggle financially and cannot receive the treatment due to the average cost of inpatient drug rehab ranging from $5,00 to $50,000 depending on the facility and type of treatment as well as average cost of 1 year of methadone maintenance treatment being approximately $4,700.
Aim: To solve the problem of individuals who wish to quit drugs but do not have financial resources to afford the treatments through a funding app.