This Project Grant award of $451,000.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to leverage natural language processing (NLP) and mixed methodologies to identify and classify medication treatment information needs of individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) on the social media platform Reddit. The project has three key objectives: 1) Identify buprenorphine- and methadone-related treatment information needs self-reported by persons with OUD on Reddit, 2) Evaluate the feasibility of reliably classifying these medication-related information needs using NLP methods, and 3) Characterize the nature of peer engagement on Reddit to identify misinformation, information gaps, self-treatment strategies, and stigma. The award, with a project period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2026, will produce new, validated methods for efficiently extracting actionable insights from social media data to improve access and quality of medication-based treatment for opioid use disorder.
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| Not listed | $0 | 10/10/24 | ||
| Not listed | $451.0k | 9/20/24 |