Welcome to the iPill Dispenser a solution for opioids public policy
A digital health - Hardware Innovation to improve prescription adherence and safety by reducing opioid diversion and abuse

A digital health - Hardware Innovation to improve prescription adherence and safety by reducing opioid diversion and abuse
Ricky Russert has graciously allowed his short film SLLiP about opioid addiction to be placed here. He hopes that we can all gather together as friends to support prevention of opioid addiction.
Steve Melen " I’d say that if I had a device like the ipill dispenser, I would have completely avoided the downward spiral that took place after leaving the hospital. Giving most people opiates for many days, then sending them free allowing to open a bottle of pills at their will is a recipe for a high probability for abuse. Innocent and well intentioned people who’ve never had a problem with pills before can easily fall to this. I would have saved a lot of heartache and pain having this device."
My website has the book that can be ordered along with a gallery of photos that some make enjoy. Also attached amazon link.
https://www.healthcentral.com/article/fighting-opioid-dependency-stomach-cancer
Alex Penrod, LCDC Licensed Controlled Dependency Counselor
"This is long overdue and I fully support it. I have many friends who died from addictions that started with pills in their parent's bathrooms. This will save lives."
Cindy Rae Mogil-Cooley
Certified Medication Addiction and Family Recovery Coaching Services
Prescriptions (Rx) Anonymous (est 1998)
Author: "Swallowing a Bitter Pill, How Prescription and Over-The-Counter Drug Abuse is Ruining Lives -My Story" (2019 second edition)
Amazon Author Page: https//www.amazon.com/author/cindymogilcooley
"Recovery is not something you find, It's something you create"
What it does:
Features:
(Class II Product)
The DEA and FDA consider the end user of opioids to be the pharmacy. In hospitals and pharmacies opioids are triple locked in a secure location. Patients receive prescription opioid medications in unsecured bottles.
What prevents them from abusing their prescriptions? 73% of teens cite ease of access in family medicine cabinets as their reason for abusing prescription drugs. https://drugfree.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PATS-2013-FULL-REPORT.pdf
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
The opioid crisis is 20 years old. Why isn't it getting better?
Fewer prescriptions are written but the overdose death rate continues to rise. We need to change what has been done because it is not working. We don't need to follow what has been done because it has failed. We need a new mindset and an innovation. The iPill is ready to change the future.
In 2 years, we've had traction:
*The iPill was one of eight company chosen by the FDA in the FDA Innovation Challenge: Devices to Prevent and Treat Opioid Use Disorder
* The FDA is focused on secure storage and safe disposal solutions
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm582954.htm
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm632067.htm
* The iPill was a winner of the 2018 FDA Innovation Challenge: Devices to Prevent and Treat Opioid Use Disorder
* We won the 2018 UCLA Opioid Hack-A-Thon
https://predictiontechnology.ucla.edu/events/the-opioid-hackathon-2018/
* The FDA designated iPill as a “breakthrough” medical device for a Class II submission.
* 3 granted patent. USPTO no. 10,426,707, 10588824, 10709643
* November 21, 2019
We were chosen as a winner of the 2019 Hartford Insurtech Hub competition where we will build a financial reimbursement model and apply for a HHS HCPCS/CPT code to make the iPill a reimbursable medical device.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2019/11/15/548572.htm
* June 16, 2020
iPill named a winner of the 2020 American College of Cardiology Digital Health Innovation Award in association with AngelMD
* June 25, 2020
iPill receives its first purchase order from a Connecticut Addiction Rehab Treatment center pill dispensers opioids public policy automatic pill dispenser
* September 9, 2020
iPill receives a second purchase order from a behavioral treatment center in 3 different states.
In the hospital, opioids are stored under lock and key and dispensed by trained healthcare providers. Patients who receive opioids at the hospital are closely monitored for side effects. There is no similar regulation or monitoring at a patient's home. Patient safety should be equal from the hospital to the home. The relapse rate has been reported to be 91% in transition from inpatient to outpatient therapy. The study also found that at least 59% of those who had an opiate relapse would do so within the first week of sobriety, and 80% would relapse within a month after discharging from a detox program/
2. Smyth, B. P., Barry, J., Keenan, E. & Ducray, K. (2010). Lapse and relapse following inpatient treatment of opiate dependence. Irish Medical Journal. 103(6),176–179.
The iPill App and iPill Dispenser provides a solution:
If you are interested, please contact us.
Please see the slides!
3.9% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 have tried illicit drugs, and 86% of them know someone who smokes, drinks or uses drugs. With such high numbers it's important to make sure, as parents, we are educating children about the dangers of alcoholism and drug addiction.
https://granitehouserecovery.com/resources/resources-for-parents/
Attitudes on youth addiction
Opioid Overdose deaths by type of opioid
Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2017
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm675152e1.htm?s_cid=mm675152e1_w
1,313,958 patients over study period of 2002 to 2011 and 9,458 patients died of a postop OD.
11,313,958 total patients divided by 9 years divided by 9,458 OD Patients = patient and this represents 20% of US admissions so 132 patients divided by 20% = 664 patients.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28267693
Ann Surg. 2017 Apr;265(4):702-708. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001945.
Predictors of In-hospital Postoperative Opioid Overdose After Major Elective Operations: A Nationally Representative Cohort Study.
Cauley CE1, Anderson G, Haynes AB, Menendez M, Bateman BT, Ladha K.
The death rate may actually be underestimated because as people overdose they aspirated on their own vomit. County coroners did not have the right CPT codes to classify death due to aspiration pneumonia secondary to opioids.
Pitt study_ 70K opioid overdose deaths went unreported on death certificates _ TribLIVE.pdf
https://www.upmc.com/media/news/062718-buchanich-death-certs
The Effect of Incomplete Death Certificates on Estimates of Unintentional Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2015 - Jeanine M. Buchanich, Lauren C. Balmert, Karl E. Williams, Donald S. Burke, 2018.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0033354918774330
The Number of Opioid Overdose Deaths May Be Underestimated
Undercount Seen in Opioid Deaths _ Medpage Today
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/opioids/73735
Most people use a cocktail of drugs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769014/
https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/2300/2017/AnnalsInternalMed.pdf
https://www.newsweek.com/study-finds-less-2-percent-overdose-victims-prescriptions-opioids-1467035
Prescription drug use is a risk factor for Heroin use
90% with a substance abuse problem began as youth with prescription opioids
3.3 Billion unused pills enter our communities every year
https://www.pacira.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/USND_Stats_FINAL.pdf
42%-71% of postop opioids go unused
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5701659/
40% of doctors refuse new Chronic pain patients using opioids
268.2% rise in pediatric deaths from prescription and illicit opioids
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6324338/
9 million stolen units of opioids
A study reported only 1.3% of patients who overdosed on prescription had an active opioid prescription.
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