Reddit Submissions of Opioid Related Content in Philadelphia Oriented Subreddits

Reddit is one of the largest social media websites in the world and it contains valuable data about its users and their perspectives organized into virtual communities or subreddits, based on common areas of interest. Substance use issues are particularly salient within this online community due to the burgeoning substance use (opioid) crisis within the United States among other countries. A particularly important location for understanding user perceptions of opioids is the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA region, due to the prevalence associated with overdose deaths. To collect user sentiment on opioid use within this region, the researchers have targeted subreddits related to Philadelphia. By referencing a predefined keyword list relating to opioids (included in the dataset), the researchers iterated through each subreddit and found all instances of the keywords. The dataset comprises submissions and comments that include the keywords. The data were collected directly from the Reddit API via the praw library in the Python programming language.

Reddit作为全球最大的社交媒体网站之一，汇聚了关于用户及其观点的宝贵数据，这些数据按照共同的兴趣领域组织成虚拟社区或子版块。在此在线社区中，由于美国及其他国家药物滥用（阿片类药物）危机的日益严重，药物使用问题尤为突出。费城，宾夕法尼亚州，美国地区对于理解用户对阿片类药物的看法尤为重要，鉴于与过量死亡相关的高发性。为了收集该地区用户对阿片类药物使用的情感态度，研究人员针对与费城相关的子版块进行了研究。通过引用数据集中包含的与阿片类药物相关的前定义关键词列表，研究人员遍历了每个子版块，并找到了所有关键词的实例。该数据集包括包含关键词的提交和评论。数据是通过Python编程语言中的praw库直接从Reddit API收集的。