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A Drug Addiction Risk Algorithm and Its Grim Toll on Chronic Pain Sufferers | WIRED

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A sweeping AI has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse.

Save this story Save this story The AI Database → Application Ethics Prediction Regulation Sector Health care Public safety One evening in July of 2020, a woman named Kathryn went to the hospital in excruciating pain. A 32-year-old psychology grad student in Michigan, Kathryn lived with endometriosis, an agonizing condition that causes uterine-like cells to abnormally develop in the wrong places. Menstruation prompts these growths to shed—and, often, painfully cramp and scar, sometimes leading internal organs to adhere to one another—before the whole cycle starts again. For years, Kathryn had

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