A new app tracks breathing to detect an opioid overdose

Called Second Chance, the smartphone application could call for help in an emergency

person looking at a phone with drug paraphernalia

OVERDOSE OVERSIGHT  Smartphones could provide people who inject opioids alone a way to ask for help in the event of an overdose.

Mark Stone/Univ. of Washington

A new smartphone app may help people who shoot up alone get medical treatment if they accidentally overdose.