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"Social" surveillance for illicit marketing and online sale of prescription stimulants

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Methods

Summary

Our team has done a lot of work examining the public health dangers of illicit online pharmacies, including authoring several peer reviewed publications and gaining coverage from media outlets. Here is some background information on our methods and approach:

What the illicit online pharmacy ecosystem looks like:


Our data collection methodology for Tweets:

What we like to do with machine learning to detect prescription drug abuse:


Establishing the forensic link between tweets promoting online drug abuse and an illicit online pharmacy:

Protocols

This project has not yet shared any protocols.