Pharmacovigilance insights from Social media data

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The contribution of data mining and natural language processing in pharmacovigilance of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid pain medication was evaluated as a case study. The tweets containing fentanyl as keyword were retrieved from Twitter social media. Crisis, dead, death, die, dose, drug, heroin, kill, lethal, opioid, overdose and police were some of the words frequently associated with fentanyl. The high correlation and association of fentanyl with these terms identified by association rule algorithms demonstrated fentanyl abuse and aftermaths in the real world.

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