Detecting a signal in the noise: monitoring the global spread of novel psychoactive substances using media and other open-source information.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Wiley & Sons Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8702539 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1099-1077 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 08856222 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Hum Psychopharmacol Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Chichester, Sussex, England : Wiley & Sons, c1986-
    • Subject Terms:
      Mass Media* ; Public Health Informatics*; Population Surveillance/*methods ; Psychotropic Drugs/*adverse effects ; Substance-Related Disorders/*diagnosis; Databases, Factual ; Humans ; Substance Abuse Detection
    • Abstract:
      Objective: To determine the feasibility and utility of using media reports and other open-source information collected by the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), an event-based surveillance system operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada, to rapidly detect clusters of adverse drug events associated with 'novel psychoactive substances' (NPS) at the international level.
      Methods and Results: Researchers searched English media reports collected by the GPHIN between 1997 and 2013 for references to synthetic cannabinoids. They screened the resulting reports for relevance and content (i.e., reports of morbidity and arrest), plotted and compared with other available indicators (e.g., US poison control center exposures). The pattern of results from the analysis of GPHIN reports resembled the pattern seen from the other indicators.
      Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that using media and other open-source information can help monitor the presence, usage, local policy, law enforcement responses, and spread of NPS in a rapid effective way. Further, modifying GPHIN to actively track NPS would be relatively inexpensive to implement and would be highly complementary to current national and international monitoring efforts.
      (© 2015 The Authors. Human Psychopharmacology published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: drug use epidemiology; monitoring drug use; novel psychoactive substances
    • Accession Number:
      0 (Psychotropic Drugs)
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20150729 Date Completed: 20160506 Latest Revision: 20181113
    • Publication Date:
      20240628
    • Accession Number:
      PMC4584493
    • Accession Number:
      10.1002/hup.2477
    • Accession Number:
      26216568