social media

Detecting Novel and Emerging Drug Terms Using Natural Language Processing: A Social Media Corpus Study

Scientific article

8 January 2018

ABSTRACT Background: With the rapid development of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and changes in the use of more traditional drugs, it is increasingly difficult for researchers and public health practitioners to keep up with emerging...

Social Media in the Classroom: An Experiential Teaching Strategy to Engage and Educate

Scientific article

7 April 2015

Abstract This article outlines an approach to engaging and educating college students through the use of social media. The project is designed for a substance use course at the college/university undergraduate level. However, it could be...

Tweet2Quit: The Social Media Intervention Helping People to Quit Smoking

Scientific article

3 April 2017

The social media quit-smoking intervention – Tweet2Quit – sends automated daily communications to private self-help groups, encouraging high-quality peer-to-peer discussions online. It is very low cost and has a potential global reach. A...

Social Media, Sport and Alcohol Advertising

Scientific article

11 December 2016

A new study published in the Drug and Alcohol Review examines the social media presence of alcohol brands that sponsor spectator sports in Australia. It highlights the way in which these brands use sport and social media in their...