Smartphone app helps alcoholics stay sober

BY LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer
Posted 3/30/14

CHICAGO - A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, researchers who developed the tool found.

The sober app studied joins a host …

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