Background. Researchers have used traditional databases to study public health for
decades. Less is known about the use of social media data sources, such as Twitter, for this …

Keeping up with emerging drugs of abuse will always be a challenge for physicians. As law
enforcement agencies classify certain drugs as illegal,“street pharmacists” rapidly adapt and …

Introduction Prescription medication overdose is the fastest growing drug-related problem in
the USA. The growing nature of this problem necessitates the implementation of improved …

Background Mental disorders have become a major concern in public health, and they are
one of the main causes of the overall disease burden worldwide. Social media platforms …

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 …

Background Investigation into personal health has become focused on conditions at an
increasingly local level, while response rates have declined and complicated the process of …

Introduction Post-marketing safety surveillance primarily relies on data from spontaneous
adverse event reports, medical literature, and observational databases. Limitations of 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 …

Background The use of social media (SM) as a surveillance tool of global illicit drug use is
limited. To address this limitation, a systematic review of literature focused on the ability of …