Abstract The17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations
Agenda 2030 constitute a global blueprint agenda and instrument for peace and prosperity …

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 …

Background Prescription medication (PM) misuse/abuse has emerged as a national crisis in
the United States, and social media has been suggested as a potential resource for …

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 …

We investigate the use of Twitter data to deliver signals for syndromic surveillance in order to
assess its ability to augment existing syndromic surveillance efforts and give a better …

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 …

The rate of non-medical use of opioid drugs has increased markedly since the early 2000s.
Due to this non-medical use, abusers suffer from different adverse effects that include …

The dramatic increase of opioid use and abuse has become a crisis in the United States. To
tackle this crisis, the necessary first step is to understand the behavioral processes of its …

Lately, the use of the Internet has led to an increase in social networking sites. The world
has become an open environment, and social networking sites have been increasingly used …

There is a growing trend for groups associated with drug use to exploit social media
platforms to propagate content that poses a risk to the population, especially those …