Developed smart phone application for ex-alcoholics

American scientists from Wisconsin have developed an experimental smartphone app for alcoholics. It is aimed at people who have already been treated. Appendix strongly interferes with a person's efforts to start drinking again. It sends text messages, the purpose of which - the moral support and encourage recovering.

In addition, when approaching the bars frequented by the user of the smartphone can hear an audible warning. If the alcohol addicted person still decides to go to the institution on his phone screen appear Warnings and Precautions.

Periodically "sober phone" sets its owner questions about the compliance of a sober lifestyle, to which he must answer honestly. Also, the inventors of the application added a "panic button".

"It allows a person to immediately escape if he feels that he is about to" fall through "application instantly provides various links, for example, to relaxation techniques." - Says David Gustafson, University of Madison Wisconsin specialist.

"Panic button" and can be configured so that close friends or former colleagues alcoholic instantly received a notice about the problem, and came to the rescue.

Earlier in Scotland presented a mobile application Drinking Mirror, which is designed to counter women's alcoholism. It offers to take a picture on the built-in smartphone camera, and then specify the approximate number of glasses consumed per week of spirits.

The next step is the application shows how the woman will look like in ten years if it is to consume the same amount of alcohol.