🙋‍♀️ Researchers at @latrobe.edu.au are recruiting women aged 45-64, living in regional areas of Australia. 🍷 We are interested in experiences of women who drink a lot, a little or not at all 📷 We will ask you to take photos of things around you that relate to drinking and follow up with an interview

Between May 2025 and May 2026 @alcoholchangevic.bsky.social held a series of roundtables with various stakeholders from alcohol and other drug and domestic, family, and sexual violence sectors. Read their report here👉 www.alcoholchangevic.org/post/alcohol...

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Between May 2025 and May 2026, Alcohol Change Victoria convened a series of roundtables with leading researchers, lived experience experts, policy professionals, and service providers from the alcohol...

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#3MT is a competition between many universities, and the #CAPR team competed this year with our colleagues from the School of Psychology and Public Health @latrobe.edu.au A great opportunity (and a challenge!) for students to present years of their research in a quick 3-minute run!

🆕It Pays to Ask Twice: Alcohol Consumption Amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Who Self-Reported Not Drinking Alcohol Teagan Weatherall, @jconigr.bsky.social, Scott Wilson, Jimmy Perry, Katherine Conigrave, Lynette Bullen ... @dadiyama-kylie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/dar....

#CAPR at the SPPH HDR Conference 2026 @latrobe.edu.au Today, we are meeting to hear interesting talks, updates from various departments at SPPH, and career presentations from experienced professors. Emmanuel Kuntsche from #CAPR shared his career story and useful tips for current students!

#KBS2026 @meganpcook.bsky.social from #CAPR @latrobe.edu.au explored how gender-based violence is researched in studies of alcohol Most studies focus on women's victimisation, instead of men's perpetration - future research needs to address power dynamics better. @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social

Jade Rintala reviewing studies about services of children and young people affected by familial AOD use. Important topic! #KBS2026

Yvette Mojica-Perez from La Trobe University studies experienced harm from others drinking and alcohol consumption and their effects on psychological stress. #KBS2026

Robin Room is presenting an interesting survey that shows that as the number of drinkers increases, so does the harm experienced by people close to them. Tom Greenfield, in turn, presents strong evidence on the work-related effects of drinking and drug use on working life. #KBS2026

Valueable advice for authors and reviewers during the #KBS2026 workshop: 'Getting through reviews: the give and take in publishing addiction science' Engaging discussion on how to review, how to respond to reviews, how to manage word limits, and what are differences between qual vs quant papers

Day 4 of #KBS2026 Session on Vulnerable Groups and #AHTO Jade Rintala from #CAPR @latrobe.edu.au presenting a systematic review on "Critical moments in service responses for children and young people in families impacted by alcoho or other drug use in Australia" @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social

🆕 Adapting ‘The Grog App’ to Ask Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples About Their Drinking in Primary Healthcare: A Delphi Study Mustafa Al Ansari, Angela Dawson, Monika Dzidowska, James Conigrave, Annalee Stearne, Katherine M. Conigrave, ...Kylie Lee https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70171

Engaging #KBS2026 session on Youth Drinking and Alcohol Policies! Koen Smit @capraustralia.bsky.social discussing papers on Alcohol Use among Ukrainian youth by Maryna Klimanska, and the role of policy environment and contextual factors on drinking by Lynsie Ranker @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social

Day 2 at #KBS2026 finalised with an open meeting focused on Alcohol, Autism and ADHD, run by @sarahcallinan.bsky.social from #CAPR @latrobe.edu.au It is important to consider how standard substance use treatment can meet the needs of neurodivergent people. @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social

Alcohol harm to others is declining!!! Great news from Anne-Marie Laslett @latrobe.edu.au at #kbs2026

Cassandra Hopkins@CAPR presented about experiences of harms from someone elses drinking, with interesting results: more experiences of harm goes together with more psychological disstress

Anne-Marie Laslett@CAPR reporting on the decline of alcohol Harms to other in AU, good news from a Public Health perspective #KBS2026

Amy Pennay@CAPR presenting about differences in the narratieve positioning of alcohol use among drinkers from different SES backgrounds - people with high SES frame it as pleasure and relaxation whereas people with lower SES as coping mechanism for stress #KBS2026

Monika Dzidowska presenting excellent work on the implementation of the grog app and "getting the best of both worlds" through integrating quality improvement and implementation science #kbs2026 @capraustralia.bsky.social

#CAPR team presenting during Alcohol Use Patterns and Harm Across Populations session at #KBS2026 @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social Anne-Marie Laslett presented her work on declining rates of #AHTO in Australia: sociodemographic and drinking pattern group differences @latrobe.edu.au

Pleasure to present today in a #KBS2026 session on Heavy Drinking: Drivers and Consequences - my PhD paper: Traditional and Emerging Gendered Heavy Drinking Norms and Experiences of Intoxication Among Young People 📷 @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social 🎓 @capraustralia.bsky.social 🏫 @latrobe.edu.au

Day 1 of #KBS2026 at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania! Opening plenary and welcome speaches from Prof. Rolandas Urbonas, Prof. Aurelijus Veryga, Prof. @gwshorter.bsky.social and Prof. @ilona-tamutiene.bsky.social @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social

Klaudia Kepa from @latrobe.edu.au talking about how youth control their drinking and keep their parents at bay. #kbs2026

AHTO Alcohol Harm To Others, important topic, over 1 milj people affected in NL and numbers are increasing.., very interesting presentation Koen Smit! #KBS2026 #AHTO

Text Messaging Intervention for Postpartum Alcohol Use: Micro-Randomized Trial Supports Feasibility, Acceptability, and Mater... (new in @jsadjournal.bsky.social 87/3) @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social @janardan.bsky.social @drjthrul.bsky.social @capraustralia.bsky.social www.jsad.com/doi/full/10....

Text Messaging Intervention for Postpartum Alcohol Use: Micro-Randomized Trial Supports Feasibility, Acceptability, and Maternal Message Preference: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 87, No 3

Objective: This pilot micro-randomized trial (MRT) evaluated the feasibility of the MRT design and compared the acceptability and preliminary impacts of drinking-focused and maternal-focused text messages to inform the development of a tailored, just-in-time adaptive text messaging intervention for postpartum at-risk alcohol use. Method: Postpartum mothers (N = 65) participated in a 28-day MRT. Participants completed ecological momentary assessment (EMA) surveys upon waking (morning survey) at two random times daily (hourly surveys), with an optional night survey (night survey). After each hourly and night survey, participants were randomized to receive either a maternal-focused message, a drinking-focused message, or no message. Check-in surveys assessed intermediate (motivation, maternal self-efficacy, drinking self-efficacy, self-regulation, and craving) and primary (alcohol use) outcomes 15 minutes later. Results: Compliance rates for all survey types exceeded 70%, except for optional night surveys. Participants reported a low burden associated with the MRT. Participants were more likely to rate maternal-focused messages as helpful and evoking positive feelings compared with drinking-focused messages. A significant effect of receiving an intervention message (vs. no message) was found for drinking self-efficacy (DSE), with those who received a message reporting higher DSE than those who received no message, and no difference between message types. Significant time-by-condition interactions revealed that the effect of maternal messages decreased over time, whereas DSE increased over time for the control condition. Conclusions: Findings support the feasibility and acceptability of the MRT design in postpartum mothers with at-risk drinking histories and inform the development of a tailored text messaging intervention for this population. Public health significance statement: Alcohol use during the early postpartum period is an important public health problem that can interfere with a mother’s ability to care for her baby and is associated with increased risk for child abuse and neglect and poor long-term child health and developmental outcomes. Postpartum mothers are often not connected to formal service systems and often do not receive needed help for alcohol use because of the stigma associated with substance use in mothers and fears of child protective services involvement if they disclose alcohol use to a professional. Digital interventions delivered via text messaging have the potential to provide confidential and convenient support to postpartum mothers to reduce risks associated with alcohol use.

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🆕 The Impact of Northern Territory Alcohol Policy Changes on Adult Domestic and Family Violence Hospital Admissions Sarah Clifford, Cassandra Wright, Kerri Coomber, A/Prof Kalinda Griffiths (Yawuru) - Equity | Data | Sovereignty, James A. Smith, Michael Livingston https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70158

More than two million Australian middle-aged men are drinking at risky levels medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05...

More than two million Australian middle-aged men are drinking at risky levels

The first national in-depth study to examine alcohol use among Australian middle-aged men has found that more than 2 million are drinking at levels that put their health at risk of harm. The new Flind...

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Upcoming #VSURF presentation by @jconigr.bsky.social from #CAPR @latrobe.edu.au When Alcohol Fills the Gap: Need Compensation and Harmful Drinking 📅 Friday May 22nd ⏰ 4pm 👉 vicsubstanceuseresearchforum.wordpress.com 📧To register - contact @meganpcook.bsky.social at M.Cook@latrobe.edu.au

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New online: A Scalable Sampling Approach for Artificial Intelligence-Based #Alcohol Content Estimation in #Movies Samatha Pararath Salim, Zhen He, Emmanuel Kuntsche, Joshua Millward, Benjamin Riordan doi.org/10.1111/dar.... @latrobeuni.bsky.social @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social #AI

The key finding is that we don't need to analyse every frame of a film (25 frames per second). We can instead analyse just 1 frame per second, which is 25x faster and has very little impact on our estimates of how much alcohol is in a film.