Summary
The United States is experiencing a public health epidemic unlike anything we’ve seen before, with the overuse of prescription drugs causing catastrophic medical, social, and economic effects for millions of Americans. The statistics related to the opioid epidemic are staggering, overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, which means that if you live in the United States, you are more likely to die from an opioid overdose than from a car accident.
The actuaries have developed innovative risk prediction methodologies, decision nodes, regression models and machine learning (ML) to identify risk profiles of patients who may be at higher risk of developing prescription drug abuse.