CLEANSEEK.AI
A supportive digital companion designed to foster sustained recovery from methamphetamine addiction by providing timely nudges based on smart, discreet pattern detection.
Project Overview: A New Path to Recovery
CleanSeek.AI is an innovative tool designed to foster sustained recovery from methamphetamine addiction by providing timely nudges based on smart, discreet pattern detection.
Understanding Your Behavioral Insights
This section combines several key areas to help you understand the digital and real-world patterns associated with methamphetamine use. By visualizing these insights, you can build greater self-awareness for your recovery journey.
Understanding Methamphetamine Use Patterns
Research reveals distinct behavioral, cognitive, and physiological patterns linked to methamphetamine use, which can be crucial indicators for relapse prediction.
Sleep Patterns: The Disrupted Clock
Methamphetamine severely disrupts natural sleep cycles. This manifests in several observable patterns:
- Staying awake for very long periods (Binge-Cycles): Extended periods of wakefulness, sometimes lasting days.
- Taking a long time to fall asleep: Difficulty initiating sleep even when exhausted.
- Sleeping for an unusually long time after a binge (Hypersomnia): A rebound effect where the user sleeps excessively after a period of intense wakefulness.
Digital Biomarkers: Predicting Relapse with Your Phone
Your smartphone offers a wealth of passive "digital biomarkers"βclues that can signal a risk of relapse with surprising accuracy. Explore how.
Location, Location, Location: Geospatial Risk Indicators
Where a person goes can be a powerful and often overlooked predictor of relapse. GPS data from a smartphone can identify these critical risks.
High-Risk Zones & Unusual Movement
Deviations from normal daily routes and late-night wandering are strong indicators of heightened risk:
- Leaving a primary safe location and entering a high-risk zone increases relapse odds by 3.2 times.
- Circular walking patterns can indicate a 2.8 times higher likelihood of use within 48 hours.
- Roaming more than 1km from home between 2 AM and 5 AM increases relapse risk by 4.1 times.
Visualizing Patterns: High vs. Sober
CleanSeek.AI helps you understand the stark differences in your digital behavior when in a "high state" versus a "sober baseline." Visualizing these patterns can be a powerful tool for self-awareness and recovery.
The 'Why': Key Research Insights
This project is built on a foundation of scientific research into how methamphetamine use affects behavior and how technology can help. Here are the core findings that shape CleanSeek.AI.
The Brain on Meth
Methamphetamine rewires the brain's reward system by flooding it with dopamine. Long-term use damages these pathways, making it hard to feel pleasure from normal activities and impairing judgment, memory, and impulse control.
"Addiction is fundamentally a brain disease characterized by profound neurochemical imbalances."
The Digital Footprint
These brain changes create a detectable "digital footprint." Patterns like obsessive phone use, erratic messaging, high-risk online searches, and severe sleep disruption become powerful, passive indicators of relapse risk.
A user's phone activity during typical sleep hours is a key predictor of relapse.
The Cognitive Cost
Because meth use impairs cognitive functions, recovery tools can't assume a user has perfect memory or judgment. The app must be simple, visual, and act as a "cognitive prosthetic" to support the user's healing brain.
Successful recovery requires addressing cognitive deficits, not just abstinence.
The Social Factor
Addiction thrives in isolation. While online platforms can be risky, a curated, safely-moderated community provides vital peer support, challenges stigma, and helps rebuild the healthy social connections essential for long-term recovery.
Peer support is a cornerstone of recovery, and digital platforms can make it accessible.
Interconnected Risk Factors
CleanSeek.AI works by understanding that risk factors are interconnected. A change in one area, like sleep, often impacts others, like mood and social behavior. The AI looks for these combined patterns.
AI Detection Pillars: The Comprehensive Nudge System
CleanSeek.AI's AI analyzes over 150 nuanced patterns across your smartphone and **integrated wearables** to identify subtle shifts that suggest a need for engagement. This is about providing a gentle, supportive nudge, not surveillance.
- Total Daily Screen Time Spike
- Nocturnal Screen Time Surge
- Fragmented Screen Time
- Extended Single-App Sessions
- Screen Time During Expected Sleep
- Sudden Drop in Screen Time
- New App Installations (High-Risk Categories)
- Increased Engagement with Risky Apps
- Decreased Engagement with Recovery Apps
- Hostile/Aggressive Language
- Paranoid Keywords
- Coded Language/Slang
- Self-Harm/Suicidal Ideation Keywords
- Erratic Message Length
- Repetitive Messaging
- Increased Call Frequency & Duration
- Calls to Unknown/New Numbers
- High-Risk Zone Entry
- Deviation from Primary Safe Location
- Nighttime Roaming
- Circular Walking Patterns
- Reduced Physical Activity
- Unusual Battery Drain
- Frequent Charging Cycles
- VPN Usage Spikes
- Excessive Data Usage
- Frequent Privacy Setting Changes
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Decrease
- Resting Heart Rate Spike
- Sweat Gland Activity Increase
- Body Temperature Fluctuations
- Respiration Rate Changes
- Gambling App Engagement
- Financial Transaction Anomalies (via Plaid API)
- High-Risk Dating/Hookup App Usage
- Loan/Pawning App Activity
- Crisis Line Search/Call History
- Trend Deviation from Baseline
- Clustering of Risky Behaviors
- Sequence of Events (e.g., poor sleep -> high-risk location)
- Rate of Change in Behavior
- Contextual Awareness (e.g., time of day, location)
Stigma & Truth: Reshaping the Narrative
Understanding the roots of addiction helps us move from judgment to compassion. Here are some foundational ideas that challenge common myths.
Gabor MatΓ©: A Video Series on Compassion
We Shouldn't Feel Ashamed
Why the Pain?
Is Addiction a Choice?
The Rat Park Study: Environment Matters
This groundbreaking experiment challenged the idea that addiction is purely a chemical hook. It showed that rats in a happy, stimulating "park" with friends and activities ignored drug-laced water, while isolated, caged rats became compulsive users.
The conclusion: our environment and our connections are powerful protectors against addiction.
Read More on the Rat Park Study βPsychosis Support: Understanding & Responding
Methamphetamine use can induce psychosis, a severe mental state characterized by a loss of contact with reality. CleanSeek.AI aims to provide early indicators and guidance for seeking appropriate support.
Detection Indicators (AI-Assisted)
CleanSeek.AI's AI can recognize patterns that may indicate the onset of psychosis, prompting a gentle suggestion to connect with support:
- Behavioral: Extreme restlessness, agitation, repetitive movements (punding), sudden social withdrawal.
- Communication: Highly fragmented or incoherent messages, sudden increase in hostile/paranoiac language, frequent calls to unknown numbers, extreme message deletion.
- Digital: Prolonged periods of no sleep indicated by constant phone activity, unusual search history (e.g., "bugs in house," "being watched"), excessive use of privacy-masking apps.
- **Physiological (via Wearables):** Sudden, uncharacteristic spikes in heart rate, erratic heart rate variability, or extreme sleep disruption patterns.
Treatment & Support Approaches
If psychosis is suspected, immediate professional help is crucial. CleanSeek.AI can facilitate this by:
- Direct Links to Crisis Services: Easy access to emergency mental health lines and local support services.
- Guidance for Support Network: Information for trusted contacts on how to respond and seek help for the user.
- De-escalation Strategies: Simple, clear advice on how to remain calm and supportive if interacting with someone experiencing psychosis.
- Medication & Therapy Information: General information on antipsychotic medications and therapeutic interventions (e.g., CBT, supportive therapy) as part of a comprehensive treatment plan.
Building CleanSeek.AI: The Solution
The CleanSeek.AI app is being developed with a robust plan, cutting-edge technology, and a dedicated team, all tailored to the unique needs of Australian users, focusing on supportive nudges and comprehensive prevention.
App Preview: A Glimpse Inside
Good Evening, Alex
You're doing great. Keep going.
28
Sober Days
How are you feeling?
High-Risk Area
You've entered an area you previously marked as high-risk. Just checking in. How are you doing?
Your Progress
Weekly Mood
Sleep Quality
Community Support
Anonymous Lion
Just hit 30 days. If I can do it, you can too. One day at a time.
Anonymous Bear
Feeling a strong craving today but I called my sponsor instead. It helped.
Anonymous Wolf
Remember why you started. It's worth it.
App Features: Your Digital Support
AI-Powered Nudges
AI analyzes digital biomarkers to identify moments for a gentle, non-judgmental prompt to engage with the app.
Cognitive Support
Offers simple CBT exercises and cognitive games tailored to address meth-induced cognitive deficits.
Safe Community
Provides a moderated platform for peer support and direct links to professional help, fostering healthy connections.
Geofencing Alerts
Notifies users and support networks when entering high-risk locations, based on pre-defined safe zones.
Development Plan & Technology
Development Style: Agile
Built in 6 phases over 27 weeks, using two-week sprints for flexibility and continuous improvement.
React Native
Cross-platform development for seamless experience on both iPhone and Android devices.
Node.js & Firebase
Secure, real-time data syncing, HIPAA-compliant to protect user privacy.
TensorFlow Lite
AI models run directly on the phone, ensuring data privacy and security.
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Acknowledgements
This project is built upon the invaluable insights and compassionate work of many. We extend our gratitude to:
- Dr. Gabor MatΓ©: For his profound work on addiction as a response to trauma and pain.
- Bruce K. Alexander: For the groundbreaking "Rat Park" study, highlighting the critical role of environment in addiction.
- All individuals in recovery: Whose courage and resilience inspire this work every day.
- Healthcare professionals and researchers: Dedicated to understanding and treating addiction.