What Should I Do?: Information and Support Needs Relating to Substance Use on Reddit
Our findings highlight the diverse needs of individuals with substance use, including informational and emotional support, coping, and contextual factors. Our main contributions include presenting a typology of contextual dimensions of information needs relating to substance use, highlighting opportunities to improve the dissemination of relevant and personalized information in treatment, education, and prevention programs, and presenting implications for practice.
Authors
- Shana Johnny (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3516-9730)
- Lexie Chenyue Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9463-0769)
- Bogeum Choi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9602-233X)
- Annie Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3070-8336)
- Rahul Kishore Chaliparambil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4345-5393)
- Rebecca Kang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4876-1697)
- Isabelle Y. Ho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7393-1968)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- University of Washington Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Substance Use & Misuse
- Published
- 2025-12-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2025.2588322
- Primary Topic
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00