A Weak Supervision Approach for Monitoring Recreational Drug Use Effects in Social Media
arXiv Preprint Archive September 18, 2025 Lucía Prieto-Santamaría, Alba Cortés Iglesias, Claudio Vidal Giné et al.
Understanding the real-world effects of recreational drug use remains a critical challenge in public health and biomedical research, especially as traditional surveillance systems often underrepresent user experiences. In this study, we leverage social media (specifically Twitter) as a rich and unfiltered source of user-reported effects associated with three emerging psychoactive substances:...