| Title |
Breaking the News or Fueling the Epidemic? Temporal Association between News Media Report Volume and Opioid-Related Mortality
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, November 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0007758 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nabarun Dasgupta, Kenneth D. Mandl, John S. Brownstein |
| Abstract |
Historical studies of news media have suggested an association between reporting and increased drug abuse. Period effects for substance use have been documented for different classes of legal and illicit substances, with the suspicion that media publicity may have played major roles in their emergence. Previous analyses have drawn primarily from qualitative evidence; the temporal relationship between media reporting volume and adverse health consequences has not been quantified nationally. We set out to explore whether we could find a quantitative relationship between media reports about prescription opioid abuse and overdose mortality associated with these drugs. We assessed whether increases in news media reports occurred before or after increases in overdose deaths. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 95 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 93 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 15% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 9% |
| Researcher | 9 | 9% |
| Other | 14 | 15% |
| Unknown | 21 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 15% |
| Psychology | 7 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 19% |
| Unknown | 24 | 25% |