#TurntTrending: a systematic review of substance use portrayals on social media platforms.

Brienna N Rutherford Carmen C W Lim Benjamin JohnsonBrandon ChengJack Yiu Chak ChungSandy HuangTianze Sun BPsyc Janni K Y Leung Daniel Stjepanović Gary Chung Kai Chan

Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2022)

Substance-related content that promotes engagement with substance use or actively depicts use appears to be widely available on social media. The large public presence of this content may have concerning influences on attitudes, behaviours and risk perceptions relating to substance use, particularly among the most vulnerable and heaviest users of social media-adolescents and young adults.

Keyphrases

social media
health information
healthcare
mental health
primary care
emergency department