Utility of Web search query data in testing theoretical assumptions about mephedrone.
Máté Kapitány-FövényZsolt DemetrovicsPublished in: Human psychopharmacology (2018)
The results might provide support for the hypothesis that mephedrone's popularity was highly correlated with its legal status as well as it functioned as a potential substitute for MDMA. Google Trends was found to be a useful tool for testing theoretical assumptions about NPS.