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International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis

IDA 2016: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XV pp 86–97Cite as

Spotting the Diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances over the Internet

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Abstract

Online availability and diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) represents an emerging threat to healthcare systems. In this work, we analyse drugs forums, online shops, and Twitter. By mining the data from these sources, it is possible to understand the dynamics of drug diffusion and its endorsement, as well as timely detect new substances. We propose a set of visual analytics tools to support analysts in tackling NPS spreading and provide a better insight about drugs market and analysis.

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Notes

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    http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/start/2016/drug-markets#pane2/4; All URLs in the paper have been accessed on July 10, 2016.

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    http://www.projectcassandra.eu.

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    http://www.bluelight.org.

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    https://drugs-forum.com.

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    https://www.torproject.org.

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    https://www.google.org/flutrends/about/.

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    https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview.

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Acknowledgements

This publication arises from the project CASSANDRA (Computer Assisted Solutions for Studying the Availability aNd DistRibution of novel psychoActive substances), which has received funding from the European Union under the ISEC programme: Prevention of and fight against crime [JUST2013/ISEC/DRUGS/AG/6414].

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Fabio Del Vigna & Marco Avvenuti

  2. Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT-CNR), Pisa, Italy

    Fabio Del Vigna, Clara Bacciu, Marinella Petrocchi, Andrea Marchetti & Maurizio Tesconi

  3. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

    Paolo Deluca

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Del Vigna, F. et al. (2016). Spotting the Diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances over the Internet. In: Boström, H., Knobbe, A., Soares, C., Papapetrou, P. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XV. IDA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46349-0_8

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