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Phone Sensor Data can be Used to Detect Cannabis Intoxication in Young Adults

Accepted submission by NPC-131072 at 2021-09-29 19:43:02 from the 4:20 all day, every day dept.
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NPC-131072 [soylentnews.org] writes:

From Rutgers: [rutgers.edu]

A smartphone sensor, much like what is used in GPS systems, might be a way to determine whether or not someone is intoxicated after consuming marijuana, according to a new study by the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.

According to the study, [sciencedirect.com] published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, which evaluated the feasibility of using smartphone sensor data to identify episodes of cannabis intoxication in the natural environment, a combination of time features (tracking the time of day and day of week) and smartphone sensor data had a 90 percent rate of accuracy.

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