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ArticleThe American journal of drug and alcohol abuse2021

When an obscurity becomes trend: social-media descriptions of tianeptine use and associated atypical drug use.

Kirsten E Smith, Jeffery M Rogers, Justin C Strickland, David H Epstein

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Article in The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Comment on "Tianeptine Exposures Reported to United States Poison Centers, 2015-2023".Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology · 2025
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  5. Commentary on Tianeptine Exposures Reported to United States Poison Centers, 2015-2023.Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology · 2025
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  8. Tianeptine Exposures Reported to United States Poison Centers, 2015-2023.Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology · 2025
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  9. Classics in Chemical Neuroscience: Tianeptine.ACS chemical neuroscience · 2024
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  13. Investigating Substance Use via Reddit: Systematic Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023
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  18. Kratom use as more than a "self-treatment".The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kirsten E SmithNational Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8352-3688
Jeffery M RogersNational Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Justin C StricklandDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1077-0394
David H EpsteinNational Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, Baltimore, MD, USA.
National Institute on Drug Abuse · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

HUMAN BEHAVIORAL PHARMACOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSET32DA007209 · NIDA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Eric C. Strain, Elise M Weerts · 1985 to 2026
$12.9M
New approaches to addiction treatmentZIADA000624 · NIDA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI EPSTEIN, DAVID · 2018 to 2025
$9.6M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 DA999999NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA007209
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Social MediaDrug UsersHumansReceptors, Opioid, muThiazepinesReceptors, Opioid, muThiazepinestianeptineantidepressantkratomonline drug-using communitiesopioidsphenibutpolydrug useself-treatmentTianeptine

Identifiers

PMID33909525
PMCPMC8380661
OpenAlexW3158544024

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Registered trials

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