Large-Scale Social Media Analysis Reveals Emotions Associated with Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use

Table 6

Potential reasons for NMPDU extracted from topic modeling content analysis.


Potential reasons Categories	Potential reasons	Frequent words across detected topics in each category

Opioid	To relieve physical pain	Pain, hospital, nauseous, and surgery
	To get high or use it with illicit drug	High, dope, and heroin
	To help with sleep	Sleep
	To help with emotions (stress)	Stress
	Hooked and addiction	Hook and addiction
	To relax	Relax, cool, recreational, and good
	To use it with smoking	Smoking, blunt, and weed
	To use it with alcohol	Drunk, liquor, wine, whiskey, and vodka

Stimulants	To help study	Finals, college, semester, study, school, exam, writing, help, test, homework, and essay
	To stay awake	Awake, espresso, and caffeine
	To use it with alcohol	Drank, wine, and whiskey
	Hooked and addiction	Hook and addiction
	To use it with smoking	Smoking and weed

Benzodiazepines	To get high or use it with illicit drug	High and cocaine
	To help with sleep	Sleep, asleep, and slept
	To help with emotions	Anxiety
	Hooked and addiction	Addiction
	To relax	Relax, cool, recreational, and happy
	To use it with smoking	Smoking, marijuana, blunt, and weed
	To use it with alcohol	Drank, vodka, tequila, liquor, wine, and whiskey

Polysubstance	To help study	Finals and study
	To get high or use it with illicit drug	High, heroin, and cocaine
	To help with emotions	Ecstasy and satisfaction
	Hooked and addiction	Addiction and addict
	To socialize	Birthday, couple, and friends
	To use it with smoking	Cigarettes, blunt, and weed
	To use it with alcohol	Drunk, wine, whiskey, and vodka
	To help with sleep	Sleep