Background The enormous consequences of drugs include suicides, traffic accidents, and
violence, affecting the individual, family, society, and country. Therefore, it is necessary to …

Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood
(eg, sexual abuse and maternal violence). Clinical research highlights the significant impact …

Social media platforms generate massive amounts of data that reveal valuable insights
about users and communities at large. Existing techniques have not fully exploited such data …

The drug abuse epidemic has been on the rise in the past few years, particularly after the
start of COVID-19 pandemic. Our preliminary observations on Reddit alone show that …

Drug overdose deaths are a dreadful crisis that leads to substantial societal impairments. Its
harmful impact directly affects families and communities. To assist policymakers in mitigating …

In this paper, we explore a real-time automation challenge: the problem of focused
extraction of Social Media users. This challenge can be seen as a special form of focused …

The surge in the application of big data and predictive analytics in fields of crisis
management, such as pandemics and epidemics, highlights the vital need for advanced …

Cyberbullying or online harassment is often defined as when someone repeatedly and
intentionally harasses, mistreats, or makes fun of others aiming to scare, anger or shame …

This work is an extension of our previous efforts to combat the drug abuse epidemic which
has been on the rise in the past few years []. We expand our developed framework …