Medicine bottle for Opioid Epidemic
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A patent for an invention has been granted for medicine bottle designs that will tackle the Opioid Epidemic head on; we could sure use your help getting it out there to help with the pain a suffering this national emergency is causing.
The new inventions were developed by a NC resident who lost his girlfriend to overdose. After about 5 years navigating the patent process Bruce Hamilton, the inventor and his cousin and business partner Scott Thomas are passionate to see the solution put to use helping address the pain, suffering and damage this epidemic has caused to this country.
The medicine bottle designs look like regular medicine bottles but mechanically only allow one pill to be dispensed at a time with security features to record the time each pill is dispensed. This dosing time information forms a history of when each tablet is taken which can then be wirelessly downloaded to a computer system (e.g. pharmacy PC upon refill). There are many other useful features covered by the patent. The cost of the bottle is very low, only a fraction of the cost of a single opioid pill.
• Firstly having data which shows when each pill is dispensed allows detection of patterns of dosing indicative of increasing dependence that can be used to head off addiction before it happens.
• Secondly having data showing when each pill is dispensed allows detection of illegal diversion because diversion doesn't happen one pill at a time.
This tool is needed to stop creating new addicts and address the problem at its root because we aren't going to treat our way out of this national emergency.
This epidemic has grown to be everyones problem, so we seek your support, encouragement and advice to help deliver this solution faster than we could on our own.
The new inventions were developed by a NC resident who lost his girlfriend to overdose. After about 5 years navigating the patent process Bruce Hamilton, the inventor and his cousin and business partner Scott Thomas are passionate to see the solution put to use helping address the pain, suffering and damage this epidemic has caused to this country.
The medicine bottle designs look like regular medicine bottles but mechanically only allow one pill to be dispensed at a time with security features to record the time each pill is dispensed. This dosing time information forms a history of when each tablet is taken which can then be wirelessly downloaded to a computer system (e.g. pharmacy PC upon refill). There are many other useful features covered by the patent. The cost of the bottle is very low, only a fraction of the cost of a single opioid pill.
• Firstly having data which shows when each pill is dispensed allows detection of patterns of dosing indicative of increasing dependence that can be used to head off addiction before it happens.
• Secondly having data showing when each pill is dispensed allows detection of illegal diversion because diversion doesn't happen one pill at a time.
This tool is needed to stop creating new addicts and address the problem at its root because we aren't going to treat our way out of this national emergency.
This epidemic has grown to be everyones problem, so we seek your support, encouragement and advice to help deliver this solution faster than we could on our own.
Organizer
Jeffrey Thomas
Organizer
Dunn, NC
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