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natural language processing  on April 18, 2025


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✅   Changes in recreational drug use, reasons for those changes and their consequence during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

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Changes in drug use in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term consequences are not well understood. We employed natural language processing and machine learning to analyse a large dataset of self-reported rates of and reasons for drug use during the pandemic, along with their associations with anxiety, depression and substance use problems post-pandemic. Our findings revealed a transient decrease in drug use at the pandemic's peak, primarily attributed to reduced...

NCBI     Apr 18, 2025