Published on in Vol 24, No 12 (2022): December

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/41527, first published .
Characterizing Help-Seeking Searches for Substance Use Treatment From Google Trends and Assessing Their Use for Infoveillance: Longitudinal Descriptive and Validation Statistical Analysis

Characterizing Help-Seeking Searches for Substance Use Treatment From Google Trends and Assessing Their Use for Infoveillance: Longitudinal Descriptive and Validation Statistical Analysis

Characterizing Help-Seeking Searches for Substance Use Treatment From Google Trends and Assessing Their Use for Infoveillance: Longitudinal Descriptive and Validation Statistical Analysis

Thomas Patton   1 , PhD ;   Daniela Abramovitz   2 , MS ;   Derek Johnson   3 , PhD ;   Eric Leas   4 , PhD ;   Alicia Nobles   1 , PhD ;   Theodore Caputi   5 , MPH ;   John Ayers   1 , PhD ;   Steffanie Strathdee   1 , PhD ;   Annick Bórquez   1 , PhD

1 Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

2 Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

3 Medecins Sans Frontieres, Genève, Switzerland

4 Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

5 Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Thomas Patton, PhD
  • Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
  • University of California San Diego
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  • Email: tepatton@health.ucsd.edu