Technology-Enabled Ecstasies Moderated by National Anxiety Prevalence: Digitalised Diffusion of the Global Psychedelics

Abstract / Description
This dataset supports a country-year panel study of 149 countries from 1996 to 2021 examining the relationship between internet diffusion, national anxiety prevalence (NAP), and ecstasy diffusion. The dependent variable is ecstasy prevalence per 100,000 population. The main predictors are internet diffusion and NAP, alongside economic, institutional, and sociocultural controls. Source data were compiled from WHO, the World Bank, Heritage Foundation, SIPRI, Oxford-based health expenditure sources, and Hofstede-based cultural indicators. Variables were harmonized into a country-year panel and transformed using a log–shift–expand procedure for estimation comparability.