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Early Results in Infodemiology and Infoveillance (114) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1977) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1604) Natural Language Processing (965) Substance Abuse (561) Prevention and Health Promotion (1485) Mass Media/Social Media Communication and Campaigns (605)

Published on in Vol 8 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/54433, first published .
Examining the Gateway Hypothesis and Mapping Substance Use Pathways on Social Media: Machine Learning Approach

Examining the Gateway Hypothesis and Mapping Substance Use Pathways on Social Media: Machine Learning Approach

Examining the Gateway Hypothesis and Mapping Substance Use Pathways on Social Media: Machine Learning Approach

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Yunhao Yuan1 Author Orcid Image ;   Erin Kasson2 Author Orcid Image ;   Jordan Taylor3 Author Orcid Image ;   Patricia Cavazos-Rehg2 Author Orcid Image ;   Munmun De Choudhury4 Author Orcid Image ;   Talayeh Aledavood1 Author Orcid Image
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