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Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1278) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1015) Information Seeking, Information Needs (426) Information Retrieval (271) Substance Abuse (383)

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

Authors of this article:

Thomas Patton1 Author Orcid Image ;   Daniela Abramovitz2 Author Orcid Image ;   Derek Johnson3 Author Orcid Image ;   Eric Leas4 Author Orcid Image ;   Alicia Nobles1 Author Orcid Image ;   Theodore Caputi5 Author Orcid Image ;   John Ayers1 Author Orcid Image ;   Steffanie Strathdee1 Author Orcid Image ;   Annick Bórquez1 Author Orcid Image
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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
  • 9500 Gilman Drive
  • La Jolla, CA, 92093
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 858-534-0830
  • Email: tepatton@health.ucsd.edu