Mining social media data for biomedical signals and health-related behavior

RB Correia, IB Wood, J Bollen… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Social media data have been increasingly used to study biomedical and health-related
phenomena. From cohort-level discussions of a condition to population-level analyses of …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of routes of administration and drug tampering for nonmedical opioid consumption: data mining and content analysis of reddit discussions

D Balsamo, P Bajardi, A Salomone… - Journal of Medical Internet …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background The complex unfolding of the US opioid epidemic in the last 20 years has been
the subject of a large body of medical and pharmacological research, and it has sparked a …

The pursuit of peer support for opioid use recovery on reddit

D Balsamo, P Bajardi, GDF Morales, C Monti… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Individuals suffering from Opioid Use Disorder and other socially stigmatized
conditions often rely on peer support groups to find comfort and motivation while treating …

Sentimental wildfire: a social-physics machine learning model for wildfire nowcasting

J Lever, R Arcucci - Journal of Computational Social Science, 2022 - Springer
The intensity of wildfires and wildfire season length is increasing due to climate change,
causing a greater threat to the local population. Much of this population are increasingly …

[HTML][HTML] The Use of Natural Language Processing Methods in Reddit to Investigate Opioid Use: Scoping Review

A Almeida, T Patton, M Conway, A Gupta… - JMIR …, 2024 - infodemiology.jmir.org
Background The growing availability of big data spontaneously generated by social media
platforms allows us to leverage natural language processing (NLP) methods as valuable …

Google trends analysis of covid-19 pandemic

Z Pan, HL Nguyen, H Abu-Gellban… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that COVID-19 was a pandemic disease
on the 11th of March as there were 118K cases in several countries and territories …

Addict free-a smart and connected relapse intervention mobile app

Z Yang, VJ Reddy, R Kesidi, F Jin - Proceedings of the 16th International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
It is widely acknowledged that addiction relapse is highly associated with spatial-temporal
factors such as some specific places or time periods. Current studies suggest that those …

Which Social Media Platforms Provide the Most Informative Data for Monitoring the Opioid Crisis?

KA Carpenter, AT Nguyen, DA Smith, IA Samori… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
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 …

Using internet search trends to forecast short term drug overdose deaths: A case study on connecticut

S Mukherjee, N Becker, W Weeks… - 2020 19th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the United States, the opioid epidemic is a serious public health crisis which claimed over
130 lives per day in 2018, according to the CDC. While there are many efforts to design …

Detection of Opioid Users from Reddit Posts via an Attention-based Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network

Y Wang, Z Fang, W Du, S Xu, R Xu, J Li - Proceedings of the 2024 8th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The opioid epidemic, referring to the growing hospitalizations and deaths because of
overdose of opioid usage and addiction, has become a severe health problem in the United …