Table 1.

Top salient words identified using Sparse Additive Generative Models (SAGE) [25] per cluster (total number of posts, n=303). Higher scores in the second column indicate greater saliency.

Topic or myth	Frequency, n (%)	SAGE keywords (score)
Treatments for opioid use disorder	90 (29.8)	therapy (1.36), mat (1.33), primary (1.31), assisted (1.28), treatment (1.24), care (1.22), replacement (1.18), buprenorphine (1.17), medication (1.13), and methadone (1.06)
Exploring the nature of addiction	68 (22.5)	physical (1.93), difference (1.85), dependence (1.83), addiction (1.77), between say (1.68), disease (1.53), not (1.47), no (1.41), and treated (1.4)
Pain, opioid use, and addiction	28 (9.3)	ppl (2.31), please (2.31), severe (2.31), majority (2.31), treating (2.31), function patients (2.27), chronic (2.27), people (2.23), and addicted (2.21)
Use of tramadol	7 (2.3)	study (3.47), extended (3.47), 200 (3.47), 30 (3.47), studies (3.29), mg tramadol (2.82), ibogaine (2.74), safe (2.54), and hard (2.54)
Physical dependence on medications	22 (7.2)	they’re (2.8), physically (2.57), trading (2.57), you’re (2.48), dependent (2.26), less (2.26), become (2.23), side (2.02), addicted (2.02), and being (1.9)
Intravenous or injection drug use	36 (11.9)	hit (1.61), nerve (1.61), hands (1.61), veins (1.52), feet (1.46), shoot (1.46), inject (1.46), artery (1.46), foot (1.46), and tying (1.46)
Pharmacologic properties, effects, and addictiveness of substances	52 (16.9)	sub (1.74), acetaminophen (1.6), targin (1.60), addictive (1.57), codeine (1.37), sometimes (1.36), drug (1.34), seizure (1.32), medical (1.32), and release (1.32)