Article Excerpt: Substance abuse disorder, or addiction, is a disease affecting more than 20 million Americans. Talk to anyone who works with those who are battling addiction and they will tell you that only through understanding all of the unique circumstances someone faces can you determine which treatment methods have the best chance of leading to long-term sobriety and health. The renowned Minnesota based Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has taken that approach in treating its patients, but recently its leaders realized they had not applied that same thinking to the hundreds of thousands of patient records accumulated at its facilities over the years. To do that, they turned to the Carlson School’s Analytics Lab. During a semester-long project, a team of five Masters of Business Analytics students used artificial intelligence to analyze more than 250,000 records in search of data patterns.
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