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Twitter-Based Detection of Illegal Online Sale of Prescription Opioid.

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • الموضوع:
      OPIOIDS; TWITTER (Web resource); INTERNET sales; DRUGS of abuse; CONTROLLED substance laws; LEGAL status of drug dealers; INTERNET pharmacies; WEBSITE laws; PRICES; DRUG laws; LAW; FENTANYL; CODEINE; RATING of sales personnel; FORENSIC sciences; NARCOTICS; WORLD Wide Web; OXYCODONE; SOCIAL media; CONTROLLED substances; MOBILE apps; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
    • الموضوع:
      UNITED States
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Objectives. To deploy a methodology accurately identifying tweets marketing the illegal online sale of controlled substances. Methods. We first collected tweets from the Twitter public application program interface stream filtered for prescription opioid keywords. We then used unsupervised machine learning (specifically, topic modeling) to identify topics associated with illegal online marketing and sales. Finally, we conducted Web forensic analyses to characterize different types of online vendors. We analyzed 619 937 tweets containing the keywords codeine, Percocet, fentanyl, Vicodin, Oxycontin, oxycodone, and hydrocodone over a 5-month period from June to November 2015. Results. A total of 1778 tweets (< 1%) were identified as marketing the sale of controlled substances online; 90% had imbedded hyperlinks, but only 46 were “live” at the time of the evaluation. Seven distinct URLs linked to Web sites marketing or illegally selling controlled substances online. Conclusions. Our methodology can identify illegal online sale of prescription opioids from large volumes of tweets. Our results indicate that controlled substances are trafficked online via different strategies and vendors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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