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 , US

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

3 Medecins Sans Frontieres , Genève , CH

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

5 Department of Economics , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA , US

Corresponding Author:

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