Patterns of Routes of Administration and Drug Tampering for Nonmedical Opioid Consumption: Data Mining and Content Analysis of Reddit Discussions

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 23; no. 1; p. e21212
• Main Authors: Balsamo, Duilio, Bajardi, Paolo, Salomone, Alberto, Schifanella, Rossano
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor 04.01.2021; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Analgesics, Opioid - pharmacology; Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use; Buprenorphine; Classification; Consumption; Content analysis; Data mining; Data Mining - methods; Drug abuse; Drug Administration Routes; Epidemics; Fentanyl; Health education; Health status; Humans; Information retrieval; Management; Multimedia; Narcotics; Opioid-Related Disorders - drug therapy; Opioids; Original Paper; Patient participation; Popularity; Public health; Qualitative research; Query expansion; Social media; Social Media - standards; Social networks; Substance abuse; Taxonomy; User generated content; Vocabularies & taxonomies; United States > US; buprenorphine; heroin; Reddit; word embedding; fentanyl; opioid; drug tampering; oxycodone; routes of administration; social media

The complex unfolding of the US opioid epidemic in the last 20 years has been the subject of a large body of medical and pharmacological research, and it has sparked a multidisciplinary discussion on how to implement interventions and policies to effectively control its impact on public health. This...