Pulse

Addiction is killing our country. We are failing to address the many shortcomings in the treatment, definition, and conceptualization of Substance Abuse Disorder. Our failure to successfully to teach and therefore habituate stress management skills during the recovery process is the locus for many of the challenges individuals struggling with addiction recovery face.

This thesis outlines the Pulse system, a wearable biometric sensor and user experience intended to help individuals in recovery painlessly integrate box breathing exercises into their stress management regiments. Pulse aims to habituate breathing exercises as coping mechanisms, provide contextual information regarding stress, and expand upon existing community-oriented treatment models. This system seeks to result in better recovery outcomes. Though, more research and development needs to be done.