BACKGROUND: Personality traits are known predictors of substance use (SU), but their expression and association with SU in digital discourse remain largely unexamined. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the online social engagement heightened and led to a...
BACKGROUND: Mobile apps are powerful tools for promoting and sustaining healthy behaviors, including supporting diverse recovery pathways from substance use, including alcohol use disorder. Indeed, prior research strongly supports the notion that soc...
BACKGROUND: Individuals with substance use problems experience stigma in different contexts. Identifying characteristic situations in which stigma occurs or manifests-stigma phenotypes-can serve as important leverage points for future intervention.
Psychiatry lags in adopting etiological approaches to diagnosis, prognosis, and outcome prediction compared to the rest of medicine. Etiological factors such as childhood trauma (CHT), substance use (SU), and socioeconomic status (SES) significantly ...
This study aimed to develop a reliable and explainable predictive model for illicit drug use (IDU). The model uses a machine learning (ML) algorithm to predict IDU using hematological differences between illicit drug users (IDUr) and non-users (n-IDU...
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Aug 5, 2025
Substance use disorders (SUD) are chronic, relapsing conditions marked by high variability in treatment response and frequent relapse. This variability arises from complex interactions among behavioral, environmental, and biological factors unique to...
BACKGROUND: User demographics are often hidden in social media data due to privacy concerns. However, demographic information on substance use (SU) can provide valuable insights, allowing public health policy makers to focus on specific cohorts and d...
BACKGROUND: Substance use disorder (SUD) involves excessive substance consumption and persistent reward-seeking behaviors, leading to serious physical, cognitive, and social consequences. This disorder is a global health crisis tied to increased mort...
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the challenges associated with mental health and substance use (SU), with societal and economic upheavals leading to heightened stress and increased reliance on drugs as a coping mechanism. Centers for Di...
Changes in drug use in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term consequences are not well understood. We employed natural language processing and machine learning to analyse a large dataset of self-reported rates of and...
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