“How can the U.S. government stem the flow of illegal opioids coming into, and traveling around, the country via the mail? This, per the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, is the $1.5 million question.”
“Together with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), DHS S&T launched the Opioid Detection Challenge on Wednesday. The goal of the challenge is to combat the ongoing deadly opioid epidemic, a public health crisis that claimed around 50,000 lives in 2017.”
“The challenge statement seeks “novel, automated, nonintrusive, user-friendly and well-developed” ideas for…” Read the full article here.
Source: DHS launches $1.5 million opioid detection challenge – By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier, February 27, 2019. FedScoop.
