Machine-learning approaches to substance-abuse research: emerging trends and their implications

E Barenholtz, ND Fitzgerald… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The application of machine-learning models to substance use disorder data shows
significant promise, with some use cases and data types showing high predictive accuracy …

Using machine learning to determine the shared and unique risk factors for marijuana use among child-welfare versus community adolescents

S Negriff, B Dilkina, L Matai, E Rice - PLoS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objective This study used machine learning (ML) to test an empirically derived set of risk
factors for marijuana use. Models were built separately for child welfare (CW) and non-CW …

A framework for multi-faceted content analysis of social media chatter regarding non-medical use of prescription medications

S Raza, B Schwartz, S Lakamana, Y Ge, A Sarker - BMC digital health, 2023 - Springer
Background Substance use, including the non-medical use of prescription medications, is a
global health problem resulting in hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths and other …

Medical Metaverse, Part 2: Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and Large Language Models in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

W López-Ojeda, RA Hurley - The Journal of Neuropsychiatry …, 2023 - Am Neuropsych Assoc
FIGURE 2. Progression of electronic large language model (LLM) technology. 1.
Transformer models are probably the basic infrastructure for these technologies (1). 2 …

Leveraging data science to enhance suicide prevention research: a literature review

AR Wulz, R Law, J Wang, AF Wolkin - Injury prevention, 2022 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Objective The purpose of this research is to identify how data science is applied in suicide
prevention literature, describe the current landscape of this literature and highlight areas …

A Bayesian learning model to predict the risk for cannabis use disorder

RMDS Rajapaksha, F Filbey, S Biswas… - Drug and alcohol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The prevalence of cannabis use disorder (CUD) has been increasing recently
and is expected to increase further due to the rising trend of cannabis legalization. To help …

Identifying individual and environmental predictors of opioid and psychostimulant use among adolescents and young adults following outpatient treatment

JP Davis, P Rao, B Dilkina, J Prindle, D Eddie… - Drug and alcohol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The United States (US) continues to grapple with a drug overdose
crisis. While opioids remain the main driver of overdose deaths, deaths involving …

Correlates of cannabis use disorder in the United States: A comparison of logistic regression, classification trees, and random forests

NA Dell, MG Vaughn, SP Srivastava, A Alsolami… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although several recent studies have examined psychosocial and demographic correlates
of cannabis use disorder (CUD) in adults, few, if any, recent studies have evaluated the …

Mobile phone ownership, social media use, and substance use at ages 11–13 in the ABCD study

N Doran, NE Wade, KE Courtney, RM Sullivan… - Addictive Behaviors, 2025 - Elsevier
Introduction There is ongoing concern about the impact of increasing use of social media
and digital devices on unhealthy behaviors such as substance use in youth. Mobile phone …

Analyzing and predicting short-term substance use behaviors of persons who use drugs in the great plains of the US

N Thach, P Habecker, B Johnston, L Cervantes… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Substance use induces large economic and societal costs in the US
Understanding the change in substance use behaviors of persons who use drugs (PWUDs) …