Researchers study the correlation between emotions and drug misuse using Twitter - Actu IA

Globally, there has been a significant increase in the number of people using prescription drugs for reasons other than why they were prescribed, sometimes combining them with other substances such as alcohol to sleep better or stimulants to perform better. A team of computer scientists and emergency physicians from Emory, Oregon, and Pennsylvania universities in the United States used AI to analyze drug misuse and the emotions users felt during times of use. The study, "Large-Scale Social Media Analysis Reveals Emotions Associated with Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use," was published in the journal Health Data Science. In 2021, more than 108,000 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses, a number that is up 20% from 2020, many of these deaths were caused by the ingestion of prescription drugs, often mixed with other substances. In France, more than 10,000 people die each year as a result of medication misuse.