Background Due to the high burden of chronic pain, and the detrimental public health consequences of its treatment with opioids, there is a high-priority need to identify effective …
Online communities such as drug-related subreddits serve as safe spaces for people who use drugs (PWUD), fostering discussions on substance use experiences, harm reduction …
A Sarker - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10443, 2022 - arxiv.org
Substance use, substance use disorder, and overdoses related to substance use are major public health problems globally and in the United States. A key aspect of addressing these …
Black women and men outpace other races for stimulant-involved overdose mortality despite lower lifetime use. Growth in mortality from prescription stimulant medications is increasing …
Background and Aims Social media can provide real-time insight into trends in substance use, addiction, and recovery. Prior studies have leveraged data from platforms such as …
A Sarker - Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine: A …, 2024 - Springer
Over the last decade, social media have been recognized as important sources of biomedical data generated directly by patients/consumers. With over 80% of the United …
People's mental health is intertwined with the social environment in which they reside. This chapter explores approaches for quantifying the area-level social environment, focusing …
Data annotation/labeling has become highly important for social science researchers interested in studying attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors in online platforms and many …
S Rajwal, AK Pandey, Z Han… - Proceedings of the First …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
We leveraged a dataset of∼ 1.5 million Twitter (now X) posts to develop a framework for analyzing breast cancer (BC) patients' concerns and possible reasons for treatment …