Ohio joins Indiana and Kentucky in funding Pear Therapeutics’ digital addiction treatments

By SharpBrains | April 26, 2021

Ohio is third state to fund Pear’s dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics to tack­le addic­tion (phar­mafo­rum): The com­pa­ny has been push­ing for more reim­burse­ment of its three mar­ket­ed DTx prod­ucts in the US fol­low­ing a first FDA approval in 2017. Pear said that the Ohio Depart­ment of Men­tal Health and Addic­tion Ser­vices (OhioMHAS) and Recov­ery­Ohio are pro­vid­ing access to…

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Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge funds program testing neurofeedback-based brain training to reduce cravings and battle opioid addiction

By SharpBrains | January 31, 2018

_______ Bat­tling Addic­tion With Brain­pow­er (Uni­ver­si­ty of Day­ton press release): “The Uni­ver­si­ty of Day­ton Research Insti­tute has won a $10,000 Ohio Opi­oid Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge award for a pro­gram that will teach peo­ple with opi­oid addic­tions how to reduce their crav­ings by regain­ing con­trol of their brains. “Using neu­ro­feed­back, we’ll work with our vol­un­teers to help…

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