Opioid overdose prediction

Machine learning models: - Ertugrul2020CASTNet: “we focus on forecasting opioid overdose using real-time crime dynamics.”

ML predictions, especially when they are not properly done, can create a lot of discrimination in pain management. See Oliva2021dosing (“Dosing Discrimination: Regulating PDMP Risk Scores”). Also see ProPublica‘s Machine bias article.

Wired covered this issue in an article titled “The Pain Was Unbearable. So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away?”.