Public health practitioners and researchers have used traditional medical databases to
study and understand public health for a long time. Recently, social media data, particularly …

Background Communicable diseases pose a severe threat to public health and economic
growth. The traditional methods that are used for public health surveillance, however …

In the big data era, data is made in real-time or closer to real-time. Thus, businesses can
utilize this evergrowing volume of data for the data-driven or information-driven decision …

Importance Automatic curation of consumer-generated, opioid-related social media big data
may enable real-time monitoring of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Objective To …

The rise of social media platforms provides an unbounded, infinitely rich source of
aggregate knowledge of the world around us, both historic and real-time, from a human …

Issues The sale of illicit drugs online has expanded to mainstream social media apps. These
platforms provide access to a wide audience, especially children and adolescents …

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 …

Pharmacovigilance is a science that involves the ongoing monitoring of adverse drug
reactions to existing medicines. Traditional approaches in this field can be expensive and …

Drug abuse continues to accelerate towards becoming the most severe public health
problem in the United States. The ability to detect drug-abuse risk behavior at a population …

Background Data from the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) can provide insights
into the types of language that are used when discussing drug use. In past research using …