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.
New paper on FoMO! We analysed Reddit posts to determine how people who were aiming to reduce their alcohol use dealt with the feelings of FoMO. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
New paper published in Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social, led by PhD student Gedefaw Alen: "Celebrity-Owned Alcohol Brands Promoted on Social Media" doi.org/10.1542/peds...
New paper from @samathasalim.bsky.social published in @addictionjournal.bsky.social: Comparing the accuracy of artificial intelligence models to detect alcohol in video images. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper from our PhD student @samathasalim.bsky.social! The paper aimed to determine how we can more efficiently use AI to analyse movies to estimate how often alcohol is shown. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Comparing the accuracy of artificial intelligence models to detect alcohol in video images buff.ly/JoqtSxY @samathasalim.bsky.social
🙌 The DAR Editorial Board would like to thank everyone who reviewed in 2025, especially our top reviewers Llewellyn Mills, @samathasalim.bsky.social, Stephen Parkin, Darren M. Roberts & @tianzesun.bsky.social ⭐
The full list of reviewers is online: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
🔷 Future surveys should measure relationship breakdown, shame, and isolation.
🔷 Behaviour change programs must address alcohol use directly
🔷 Intoxication should never be treated as an excuse for violence
🔷 Screening for alcohol-related IPV should be integrated into healthcare and community services
⚧️ Women were disproportionately and more severely affected. Many framed their partner’s violence as something that happened because he was drinking, raising critical questions about how alcohol interacts with gendered power dynamics.
These behaviours have a wide range of impacts:
🔶 Caregiving and increased responsibilities
🔶 Behavioural adaptation & protective mechanisms
🔶 Shame, fear, and diminished self-worth
🔶 Relationship breakdown and separation
Participants experienced:
🔸 Failure to fulfil roles – neglect of family duties, financial strain, failures in communication
🔸 Socially inappropriate behaviour – violating social and relationship norms
🔸 Emotional and physical abuse – verbal abuse, aggression, coercion, threats and severe violence
"Our study aims to examine how intimate partners of heavy drinkers, predominantly women, understand, categorise, and navigate the harms they experience.
Using interview data from the 2023 Alcohol's Harm to Others study, we found that alcohol-related harm goes far beyond physical violence.
Amany is a Graduate Researcher at #CAPR @latrobe.edu.au. Her PhD is a part of ARC–funded #AHTO project. Her research focuses on alcohol-related domestic violence, in particular, the harms experienced by intimate partners. Her work explores alcohol’s role in intimate partner violence in Australia
A new publication on "Living with the consequences of an intimate partner’s drinking" by Amany Tanyos, @casshopkins.bsky.social, Hoang-Van Nguyen, Heng (Jason) Jiang, Rebecca Jenkinson, Anne-Marie Laslett, and @sarjomac.bsky.social
📄Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This presentation offers a bit of a whirlwind tour of currently explored methods, highlighting their potential and the practical challenges in application, followed by open discussion and opportunities for collaboration
📧To register - contact @meganpcook.bsky.social at M.Cook@latrobe.edu.au
🌍 Drawing on ongoing work, he’ll illustrate how novel data sources (e.g., environmental data, web scraping) and advances in analytic techniques (e.g., AI and machine learning, complex systems approaches) can be used to better understand alcohol-related behaviours as well as broader policy contexts.
🧑🏫 Dan Anderson-Luxford from #CAPR focuses on alcohol use and alcohol policy research. He explores how combining intensive survey designs, data linkage, and computational approaches can better integrate understandings of the contextual influences that shape alcohol use.
We would like to invite you to upcoming @vsurf.bsky.social presentation where Dan Anderson-Luxford from #CAPR @latrobe.edu.au will be presenting methodological insights from his research
📅 Friday April 17th
⏰ 4pm
📍 online and in person
👉 vicsubstanceuseresearchforum.wordpress.com
Today we celebrated 20 years of research, collaboration, and innovation at CAPR in Melbourne.
This milestone isn’t just about CAPR’s achievements — it’s about the people who make them possible: students, researchers, partners, and our community.
Here’s to the next 20 years!
New on The BASIS: We review a study by researchers from @capraustralia.bsky.social that analyzed Reddit discussions to explore how people manage the fear of missing out (FoMO) when reducing their alcohol use. basisonline.org/2026/02/24/c...
New open access tutorial paper on how social scientists can use machine learning to analyse images. We think this is a super cool method and we have aimed it at those with no background in programming or computer science psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
New paper by Maree Patsouras (+supervisors & @sarjomac.bsky.social). It explores how midlife women's drinking challenges/fits within ideals around femininity, 'good motherhood' and neoliberalism.
A great final qual paper as part of Maree's mixed methods PhD! 😊
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
New from @meganpcook.bsky.social, @amypennay.bsky.social and myself in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social - we talk about the current focus on how women's consumption influences their risk of assault. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A Trobe university-led report on alcohol's harm to others (Dec 2025), shares findings on the extent of harm experienced by people around the drinker. This report strengthens the evidence base for all countries to review their polices.
Read the report here: opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/rep...
Alcohol's harms to others than the drinker is often overlooked, but in Australia a new report lays it all out.
The report delivers the most comprehensive analysis yet on the scale, nature, economic burden, inequalities, and drivers of alcohol’s harm to others in Australia.
www.latrobe.edu.au/news/article...
This launch celebrates the completion of a multi-year ARC-funded project led by La Trobe University, Central Queensland University, with FARE, the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Monash Health, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, the ADF and the Australian Rechabite Foundation.
Today CAPR is attending the official launch of the Alcohol Harms to Others Report at the Victorian Parliament, hosted by the Minister for Casino, Gaming and Liquor Regulation, The Honourable Enver Erdogan MLC.
“Rethinking drug-related harms as emerging through global systems” by Gabriel Caluzzi & Thomas Norman #accepted