Hannah St. Francis

Web Monitoring as an Early Warning System: “Benadryl Challenge” Online Mentions Correlate With Diphenhydramine Overdoses Reported to US Poison Centers

PURPOSE: Social media has propagated several "challenges" that engage primarily adolescents in life-threatening behaviors such as the "Benadryl Challenge," where participants film themselves ingesting large doses of diphenhydramine. Once shared online, these activities have the p...