Abuse of prescription drugs in the context of novel psychoactive substances (NPS): a systematic review

F Schifano, S Chiappini, JM Corkery, A Guirguis - Brain sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Recently, a range of prescription and over-the-counter drugs have been reportedly used as
Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), due to their potential for abuse resulting from their …

Mining social media for prescription medication abuse monitoring: a review and proposal for a data-centric framework

A Sarker, A DeRoos, J Perrone - Journal of the American …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objective Prescription medication (PM) misuse and abuse is a major health problem
globally, and a number of recent studies have focused on exploring social media as a …

Feature extraction and analysis of natural language processing for deep learning English language

D Wang, J Su, H Yu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NLP (Natural Language Processing) is a technology that enables computers to understand
human languages. Deep-level grammatical and semantic analysis usually uses words as …

Mining social media data: How are research sponsors and researchers addressing the ethical challenges?

J Taylor, C Pagliari - Research Ethics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Data representing people's behaviour, attitudes, feelings and relationships are
increasingly being harvested from social media platforms and re-used for research …

Discovering alternative treatments for opioid use recovery using social media

S Chancellor, G Nitzburg, A Hu, F Zampieri… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Opioid use disorder (OUD) poses substantial risks to personal well-being and public health.
In online communities, users support those seeking recovery, in part by promoting clinically …

Recommendations for the use of social media in pharmacovigilance: lessons from IMI WEB-RADR

J van Stekelenborg, J Ellenius, S Maskell, T Bergvall… - Drug Safety, 2019 - Springer
Over a period of 3 years, the European Union's Innovative Medicines Initiative WEB-RADR
project has explored the value of social media (ie, information exchanged through the …

[HTML][HTML] Social media listening to understand the lived experience of presbyopia: systematic search and content analysis study

JS Wolffsohn, C Leteneux-Pantais… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background Presbyopia is defined as the age-related deterioration of near vision over time
which is experienced in over 80% of people aged 40 years or older. Individuals with …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling up research on drug abuse and addiction through social media big data

SJ Kim, LA Marsch, JT Hancock, AK Das - Journal of medical Internet …, 2017 - jmir.org
Background Substance use–related communication for drug use promotion and its
prevention is widely prevalent on social media. Social media big data involve naturally …

Assessment of the utility of social media for broad-ranging statistical signal detection in pharmacovigilance: results from the WEB-RADR project

O Caster, J Dietrich, ML Kürzinger, M Lerch, S Maskell… - Drug safety, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Introduction and Objective Social media has been proposed as a possibly useful
data source for pharmacovigilance signal detection. This study primarily aimed to evaluate …

Characterizing marijuana concentrate users: A web-based survey

R Daniulaityte, FR Lamy, M Barratt, RW Nahhas… - Drug and alcohol …, 2017 - Elsevier
Aims The study seeks to characterize marijuana concentrate users, describe reasons and
patterns of use, perceived risk, and identify predictors of daily/near daily use. Methods An …