Which Social Media Platforms Provide the Most Informative Data for Monitoring the Opioid Crisis?
Kristy A CarpenterAnna T NguyenDelaney A SmithIssah Abubakari SamoriKeith N HumphreysAnna LembkeMathew V KiangJohannes C EichstaedtRuss B AltmanPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2024)
Social media data sources hold promise for detecting trends in opioid use, but researchers must consider the utility, accessibility, and stability of data on each platform. A strategy mixing several platforms may be required to cover all demographics suffering in the epidemic.