Alcohol Abuse Monitoring Market: Overview
Substance abuse monitoring post-recovery, including for alcoholics, needs constant self-discipline and accountability for enforcing the correct behavior. A range of community-based approaches and technologies have shaped the evolution of the alcohol abuse monitoring market. These approaches, including adoption of wearable technologies, not only help in non-invasive monitoring but also help the care team keep a close watch all the time, and are aimed at avoiding relapse. Moreover, they help in facilitating independent behaviors for the affected. The strides in the alcohol abuse monitoring market have been see undercurrent on the back of discovery of numerous biomarkers and increasing need for responding to testing services.

Most popularly, alcohol abuse monitoring is made successful by self-monitoring. Advances in instrumentation and software used in self-monitoring devices helps in better monitoring of hazardous drinkers, binge drinkers, and alcoholics. Notable advances have been made in sensors, typically in GPS sensors. Authorities over the past few years have come to rely on such technologies to decide the appropriateness of delinquent orders.

Alcohol Abuse Monitoring Market: Key Trends
The study offers in-depth insights into regulatory underpinning for certain technologies, key application trends, and major technological advances. The research on the market provides share and size of various application and regional trends and offers a granular assessment of emerging opportunities during 2020 – 2030.

The growing awareness among communities and governments about the mounting problem of alcohol abuse is a key undercurrent for the expansion of the alcohol abuse monitoring market. The growing acceptance of devices is underpinned by the stakeholders seeing the effectiveness of wearable and non-wearable in community-based approaches. Reduction in the cost of devices has helped bolster the evolution of the alcohol abuse monitoring market.

The growing application of monitoring devices in sustainable recovery is a key trend boosting the market. The advent of customized testing schedules has also favorably affected the growth dynamics of the market. Care personnel can offer real-time feedback, thereby helping in attaining goals faster.

Alcohol Abuse Monitoring Market: Competitive Analysis and Key Developments
Stakeholders in the alcohol abuse monitoring market are leaning on improving the accuracy and reliability of devices. Device manufacturers take care of sensitivities and specificities that cater to the needs of target population. They are also adopting approach of combining several biomarkers.

Numerous device developers in the alcohol abuse monitoring market aim at transdermal alcohol testing and are developing wearable to the end. An example is SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring (SCRAM CAM) by SCRAM Systems. Advances in wearables aim at continuous alcohol monitoring for prolonged duration with accuracy. Such devices are expected to see better adoption in high-risk alcohol and domestic violence offenders. Regulatory bodies are also keen on making regular updates for diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder (AUD).

Some of the well-entrenched players in the market are lcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc., Electronic Sentencing Alternative, BI Incorporated, StreeTime Technologies, Sentinel, BACtrack, and 3M.

Alcohol Abuse Monitoring Market: Regional Assessment
Some of the key regional segments are North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan, and the Middle East and Africa. Of these, North America and Europe are lucrative markets. The vast appetite for monitoring technologies in the two regional markets can be largely attributed to the growing reliability of these in preventing relapse and in ensuring regulatory compliance. Further, extensive research is being conducted on developing biomarkers of high specificity.

Meanwhile, the growing awareness about the substance use in Asia Pacific has bolstered the prospects in this regional market. Communities in the region are adopting technologies that can help in monitoring abstinence in the target population even after long-term use