The big data revolution presents an exciting frontier to expand public health research,
broadening the scope of research and increasing the precision of answers. Despite these …

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 …

Social media provide a platform for users to express their opinions and share information.
Understanding public health opinions on social media, such as Twitter, offers a unique …

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 …

Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a
population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social …

Social networks have become important platforms for the marketing and sale of illicit drugs.
Hashtags make it easier for users to engage in drug trafficking, further increasing the risk of …

Illicit drug trade via social media sites, especially photo-oriented Instagram, has become a
severe problem in recent years. As a result, tracking drug dealing and abuse on Instagram is …

The interactions and activities of hundreds of millions of people worldwide are recorded as
digital traces every single day. When pulled together, these data offer increasingly …

Illicit drug trafficking via social media sites such as Instagram have become a severe
problem, thus drawing a great deal of attention from law enforcement and public health …

Social media such as Instagram and Twitter have become important platforms for marketing
and selling illicit drugs. Detection of online illicit drug trafficking has become critical to …