State Legislators' Divergent Social Media Response to the Opioid Epidemic from 2014 to 2019: Longitudinal Topic Modeling Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The opioid epidemic is widely recognized as a legislative priority, but there is substantial variation in state adoption of evidence-based policy. State legislators' use of social media to disseminate information and to indicate support for specific initiatives continues to grow and may reflect legislators' openness to opioid-related policy change.

Objective

We sought to identify changes in the national dialogue regarding the opioid epidemic among Democratic and Republican state legislators and to estimate changing partisanship around understanding and addressing the epidemic over time.

Design

Longitudinal natural language processing analysis.

Participants

A total of 4083 US state legislators in office between 2014 and 2019 with any opioid-related so

SUBMITTER: Stokes DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8606510 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature