Behaivior

Behaivior is a Pittsburgh-based startup that is creating a technology to predict and prevent addiction relapses using advanced wearable devices (similar to a Fitbit) and pattern-detection machine learning algorithms. Our initial use case is opioid addiction. We want to help people maintain sobriety by bringing them the right intervention, at the right time, in real time.

We are creating software that can take real-time data streams from wearable devices that detect heart rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature, motion, and galvanic skin response (which is related to stress levels). This data is combined with other digital information about behavior, such as GPS location. As behavior and physiology changes, our software screens users for whether or not they are in a pre-relapse craving state, and therefore at higher risk of relapsing in the near future. When people in recovery from substance use disorder are in a craving state, the propensity for relapse is high. By the time a traditional intervention occurs, they are already reusing again.