'What counts as drinking' in pregnancy varies - eg 'wine doesn't count' is often heard, but so much stigma around alcohol use in pregnancy. Interesting parallel with othering/problem recognition challenges @melissaoldham.bsky.social in other session #SSA2025

@leonxiao.com presents gambling data on social media ads and low compliance. Highlights #Brexit means disclosure of such data is now voluntary for UK context

#SSA2025

Excellent talk by @adamjkucharski.bsky.social at last week's @pubsci.bsky.social event on the science of certainty- including a great graph on a *correlation* between college alcohol spend and 1st class degree awards!

I've written a piece for @addiction-ssa.org on Alcoholics Anonymous, exploring it's current role - and tensions - within the current recovery landscape 90 years after its first meetings were held. Please share 🙏

www.addiction-ssa.org/features/ess...

#alcoholicsanonymous #recovery #addiction

Important study on the mental health and alcohol relationship in general population - good mental health was protective against future heavy drinking, but no other directional effects found.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Gemini AI categorically stated addiction is a *disease*, but now promising not to reify this model after I highlighted this recent piece on the topic doi.org/10.1016/S221...

Obviously complex but the main studies here are probably these, obviously more about biogentic attributions in general but do include genetic attributions

I think use of other drugs/'addiction' are probably less commonly portrayed in a straightforwardly positive way given the cultural normalisation of drinking specifically. But I haven't looked closely at this. This study in the UK is informative though

doi.org/10.1177/0305...

Interesting analysis of an 'extremely rare' bottle of Vin Mariani tonic wine (1838–1914), confirming presence of cocoaethyene as the synergistic product of cocaine and alcohol

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I think this is a good language guide from @anti-stigmanetwork.bsky.social

This bit on using lived experience carefully I think is particularly overlooked issue. I do think the common use of more stereotypical lived experiences needs more debate/consideration..