ArticleComputational and mathematical organization theory2019
Global trends, local harms: availability of fentanyl-type drugs on the dark web and accidental overdoses in Ohio.
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- Drug Abuse Ontology to Harness Web-Based Data for Substance Use Epidemiology Research: Ontology Development Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Article
- Ordinary people, criminals, addicts and recreational users: Swedish court of law descriptions of persons sentenced for online drug purchases.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2022Article
- Community-based naloxone coverage equity for the prevention of opioid overdose fatalities in racial/ethnic minority communities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
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- Social Media Text Mining Framework for Drug Abuse: Development and Validation Study With an Opioid Crisis Case Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Listed for sale: Analyzing data on fentanyl, fentanyl analogs and other novel synthetic opioids on one cryptomarket.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Interpol review of controlled substances 2016-2019.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2020Review
- Trends in fentanyl and fentanyl analogue-related overdose deaths - Montgomery County, Ohio, 2015-2017.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
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Abstract
As America's opioid crisis has become an "epidemic of epidemics," Ohio has been identified as one of the high burden states regarding fentanyl-related overdose mortality. This study aims to examine changes in the availability of fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and other non-pharmaceutical opioids on cryptomarkets and assess relationship with the trends in unintentional overdoses in Ohio to provide timely information for epidemiologic surveillance. Cryptomarket data were collected at two distinct periods of time: (1) Agora data covered June 2014-September 2015 and were obtained from Grams archive; (2) Dream Market data from March-April 2018 were extracted using a dedicated crawler. A Named Entity Recognition algorithm was developed to identify and categorize the type of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids advertised on cryptomarkets. Time-lagged correlations were used to assess the relationship between the fentanyl, fentanyl analog and other synthetic opioid-related ads from cryptomarkets and overdose data from the Cincinnati Fire Department Emergency Responses and Montgomery County Coroner's Office. Analysis from the cryptomarket data reveals increases in fentanyl-like drugs and changes in the types of fentanyl analogues and other synthetic opioids advertised in 2015 and 2018 with potent substances like carfentanil available during the second period. The time-lagged correlation was the largest when comparing Agora data to Cincinnati Emergency Responses 1 month later 0.84 (95% CI 0.45, 0.96). The time-lagged correlation between Agora data and Montgomery County drug overdoses was the largest when comparing synthetic opioid-related Agora ads to Montgomery County overdose deaths 7 months later 0.78 (95% CI 0.47, 0.92). Further investigations are required to establish the relationship between cryptomarket availability and unintentional overdose trends related to specific fentanyl analogs and/or other illicit synthetic opioids.
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