Addictive Behaviors

Article	Citations
Drinking to cope with the pandemic: The unique associations of COVID-19-related perceived threat and psychological distress to drinking behaviors in American men and women	289
Changes in alcohol use as a function of psychological distress and social support following COVID-19 related University closings	249
Prevalence of social media addiction across 32 nations: Meta-analysis with subgroup analysis of classification schemes and cultural values	209
A review of theories and models applied in studies of social media addiction and implications for future research	184
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and social media’s impact on daily-life and productivity at work: Do WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat Use Disorders mediate that association?	154
Substance use and abuse, COVID-19-related distress, and disregard for social distancing: A network analysis	142
Effects of smartphone addiction on sleep quality among Chinese university students: The mediating role of self-regulation and bedtime procrastination	139
The influence of depressive symptoms and fear of missing out on severity of problematic smartphone use and Internet gaming disorder among Chinese young adults: A three-wave mediation model	107
Prevalence of gaming disorder: A meta-analysis	103
Prevalence and correlates of substance use among transgender adults: A systematic review	103
Loneliness and problematic mobile phone use among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of escape motivation and self-control	83
Smartphone and social media use contributed to individual tendencies towards social media addiction in Italian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic	80
Problematic social media use and social support received in real-life versus on social media: Associations with depression, anxiety and social isolation	78
Internet gaming disorder and psychosocial well-being: A longitudinal study of older-aged adolescents and emerging adults	77
“It’s really addictive and I’m trapped:” A qualitative analysis of the reasons for quitting vaping among treatment-seeking young people	61
Prior drinking motives predict alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 lockdown: A cross-sectional online survey among Belgian college students	60
Is vaping cessation like smoking cessation? A qualitative study exploring the responses of youth and young adults who vape e-cigarettes	60
Validation of smartphone addiction scale – Short version (SAS-SV) in Brazilian adolescents	60
The influence of perceived parental phubbing on adolescents’ problematic smartphone use: A two-wave multiple mediation model	57
Are sexual functioning problems associated with frequent pornography use and/or problematic pornography use? Results from a large community survey including males and females	57
A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and network meta-analysis of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation	57
Preliminary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on smoking and vaping in college students	51
Social media and E-cigarette use among US youth: Longitudinal evidence on the role of online advertisement exposure and risk perception	49
Assessing online gaming and pornography consumption patterns during COVID-19 isolation using an online survey: Highlighting distinct avenues of problematic internet behavior	46
Cryptocurrency trading, gambling and problem gambling	45

Informing the development of adolescent e-cigarette cessation interventions: A qualitative study	45
Avatar identification and problematic gaming: The role of self-concept clarity	45
E-cigarette devices, brands, and flavors attract youth: Informing FDA's policies and priorities to close critical gaps	44
Needs affordance as a key factor in likelihood of problematic social media use: Validation, latent Profile analysis and comparison of TikTok and Facebook problematic use measures	44
Perceived school climate and problematic internet use among adolescents: Mediating roles of school belonging and depressive symptoms	44
Racial/ethnic differences in US drug overdose mortality, 2017–2018	43
Association between e-cigarette use and future combustible cigarette use: Evidence from a prospective cohort of youth and young adults, 2017–2019	43
Systematic literature review online gaming addiction among children and young adults: A framework and research agenda	43
Secondary analysis of loot box data: Are high-spending “whales” wealthy gamers or problem gamblers?	43
Perceived interparental conflict and problematic social media use among Chinese adolescents: The mediating roles of self-esteem and maladaptive cognition toward social network sites	43
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacts tobacco addiction: Changes in smoking behavior and associations with well-being	43
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A review about its efficacy in the treatment of alcohol, tobacco and cocaine addiction	43
A synthesis of the literature to inform vaping cessation interventions for young adults	42
Upward social comparison and state anxiety as mediators between passive social network site usage and online compulsive buying among women	41
Social comparison orientation and fear of missing out as mediators between self-concept clarity and problematic smartphone use	41
Binge drinking before and after a COVID-19 campus closure among first-year college students	41
Trends and correlates of cocaine use among adults in the United States, 2006–2019	40
Associations of personality and clinical characteristics with excessive Internet and smartphone use in adolescents: A structural equation modeling approach	40
Recreational cannabis legalization alters associations among cannabis use, perception of risk, and cannabis use disorder treatment for adolescents and young adults	39
A cross-lagged panel model for testing the bidirectional relationship between depression and smartphone addiction and the influences of maladaptive metacognition on them in Chinese adolescents	39
Cannabis use and sleep: Expectations, outcomes, and the role of age	38
The associations between attachment, self-esteem, fear of missing out, daily time expenditure, and problematic social media use: A path analysis model	38
Substance use and abuse associated with the behavioral immune system during COVID-19: The special case of healthcare workers and essential workers	37
School-based e-cigarette education in Alabama: Impact on knowledge of e-cigarettes, perceptions and intent to try	36
A mediated path from emotional intelligence to problematic social media use in adolescents: The serial mediation of perceived stress and depressive symptoms	36
Prevalence and use of cannabis products and routes of administration among youth and young adults in Canada and the United States: A systematic review	34
Rethink Vape: Development and evaluation of a risk communication campaign to prevent youth E-cigarette use	34
Youth use of e-cigarettes: Does dependence vary by device type?	34
Substance, use in relation to COVID-19: A scoping review	34
Short communication: Systematic review on effectiveness of micro-induction approaches to buprenorphine initiation	33
Social media’s influence on e-cigarette use onset and escalation among young adults: What beliefs mediate the effects?	33
The impact of the initial Covid-19 lockdown upon regular sports bettors in Britain: Findings from a cross-sectional online study	33
Smartphone health apps for tobacco Cessation: A systematic review	33
Vaping, smartphones, and social media use among young adults: Snapchat is the platform of choice for young adult vapers	32
Intimate partner violence as a predictor of substance use outcomes among women: A systematic review	32
Treatment retention and abstinence of patients with substance use disorders according to addiction severity and psychiatry comorbidity: A six-month follow-up study in an outpatient unit	31
Insight in substance use disorder: A systematic review of the literature	31
Age-varying time trends in cannabis- and alcohol-related risk perceptions 2002–2019	31
Parent-adolescent relationships, peer relationships, and adolescent mobile phone addiction: The mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction	29
Moderated-mediation analysis of problematic social networking use: The role of anxious attachment orientation, fear of missing out and satisfaction with life	29
The relationship between delay discounting and Internet addiction: A systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Properties of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-18) in community and subclinical samples in China and Hungary	28
Physical activity: A promising adjunctive treatment for severe alcohol use disorder	28
Profiles of potential behavioral addictions' severity and their associations with gender, personality, and well-being: A person-centered approach	27
Managing shame and guilt in addiction: A pathway to recovery	27
Why is Internet gaming disorder more prevalent among Chinese male than female adolescents? The role of cognitive mediators	27
Factors associated with alcohol and tobacco consumption as a coping strategy to deal with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and lockdown in Spain	27
Online recovery support meetings can help mitigate the public health consequences of COVID-19 for individuals with substance use disorder	27
Sex differences in benzodiazepine misuse among adults with substance use disorders	26
Gaming to cope: Applying network analysis to understand the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and internet gaming disorder symptoms among disaster-exposed Chinese young adults	26

A two-generation study: The transmission of attachment and young adults’ depression, anxiety, and social media addiction	26
Identifying message content to reduce vaping: Results from online message testing trials in young adult tobacco users	26
A fentanyl test strip intervention to reduce overdose risk among female sex workers who use drugs in Baltimore: Results from a pilot study	25
The “alcoholic other”: Harmful drinkers resist problem recognition to manage identity threat	25
High prevalence of co-occurring substance use in individuals with opioid use disorder	25
Gambling Disorder and comorbid PTSD: A systematic review of empirical research	25
Excessive and pathological Internet use – Risk-behavior or psychopathology?	25
Risk and protective factors for (internet) gaming disorder: A meta-analysis of pre-COVID studies	24
Cannabis and mental health: Prevalence of use and modes of cannabis administration by mental health status	24
E-cigarette devices used on school grounds	24
Metacognition in gambling disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	24
The associations of adolescent problematic internet use with parenting: A meta-analysis	24
Cryptocurrency trading and its associations with gambling and mental health: A scoping review	23
Parent-child relationship and smartphone addiction among Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal moderated mediation model	23
Exploring the associations between gambling cravings, self-efficacy, and gambling episodes: An Ecological Momentary Assessment study	23
Young adult cannabis use disorder treatment admissions declined as past month cannabis use increased in the U.S.: An analysis of states by year, 2008–2017	23
Loot boxes and problem gambling: Investigating the “gateway hypothesis”	23
Delta-8 THC use in US adults: Sociodemographic characteristics and correlates	23
Deconstructing the components model of addiction: an illustration through “addictive” use of social media	22
Academic procrastination precedes problematic mobile phone use in Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal mediation model of distraction cognitions	22
Sex differences in driving under the influence of cannabis: The role of medical and recreational cannabis use	22
Decision-making (in)flexibility in gambling disorder	22
Above the influence of vaping: Peer leader influence and diffusion of a network-informed preventive intervention	22
Disordered gaming in esports: Comparing professional and non-professional gamers	22
Post-legalization changes in marijuana use in a sample of young California adults	22
Problematic social media use and associated consequences on academic performance decrement during Covid-19	22
Use, marketing, and appeal of oral nicotine products among adolescents, young adults, and adults	22
E-cigarette use among young adults: A latent class analysis examining co-use and correlates of nicotine vaping	21
Systematic review and meta-analysis of retention in treatment using medications for opioid use disorder by medication, race/ethnicity, and gender in the United States	21
Problematic social networking sites use and online social anxiety: The role of attachment, emotion dysregulation and motives	21
Testing the spectrum hypothesis of problematic online behaviors: A network analysis approach	21
Prevalence of cannabis use, disorder, and medical card possession in U.S. military veterans: Results from the 2019–2020 National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study	21
Risk factors for alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette polysubstance use during adolescence and young adulthood: A 7-year longitudinal study of youth at high risk for smoking escalation	21
Drunkorexia: Normative behavior or gateway to alcohol and eating pathology?	21
Tobacco cessation in low- to middle-income countries: A scoping review of randomized controlled trials	21
Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review	21
Adolescents who solely engage in online sexual experiences are at higher risk for compulsive sexual behavior	21
Psychosocial predictors of substance use in adolescents and young adults: Longitudinal risk and protective factors	21
Temporal directional relationship between problematic internet use and depressive symptoms among Japanese adolescents: A random intercept, cross-lagged panel model	21
Prospective effects of loneliness on frequency of alcohol and marijuana use	20
A longitudinal assessment of nicotine dependence, mental health, and attempts to quit Smoking: Evidence from waves 1–4 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study	20
Longitudinal associations among smartphone addiction, loneliness, and depressive symptoms in college students: Disentangling between– And within–person associations	20
College programming for students in addiction recovery: A PRISMA-guided scoping review	20
Prevalence and predictors of the persistence and incidence of adolescent internet addiction in Mainland China: A two-year longitudinal study	20
A meta-analytic review of Internet gaming disorder and the Big Five personality factors	20
Sexual orientation and gender identity disparities in co-occurring depressive symptoms and probable substance use disorders in a national cohort of young adults	20
Association between relationship adaptation and Internet gaming disorder among first-year secondary school students in China: Mediation effects via social support and loneliness	20
Longitudinal changes in alcohol use and binge-drinking among young-adult college students: Analyses of predictors across system levels	20
A three-wave panel study on longitudinal relations between problematic social media use and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
“Don't do vape, bro!” A qualitative study of youth’s and parents’ reactions to e-cigarette prevention advertisements	20
An examination of the prospective associations between objectively assessed exposure to alcohol-related Instagram content, alcohol-specific cognitions, and first-year college drinking	19
Non-invasive brain stimulation targets and approaches to modulate gambling-related decisions: A systematic review	19
Problematic use or addiction? A scoping review on conceptual and operational definitions of negative social networking sites use in adolescents	19
Developing a targeted e-cigarette health communication campaign for college students	19
The role of maladaptive cognitions in gaming disorder: Differences between online and offline gaming types	19
Consumer perceptions of ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ cannabis in US states with legal cannabis sales	19
Adverse childhood experiences and problematic smartphone use among college students: Findings from a pilot study	19
The potential role of cocaine and heroin co-use in the opioid epidemic in the United States	19
Bidirectional associations between alcohol use and intimate partner violence and sexual assault victimization among college women	19
Buying despite negative consequences: Interaction of craving, implicit cognitive processes, and inhibitory control in the context of buying-shopping disorder	19
A trauma model of substance use: Elaboration and preliminary validation	19
Responses to potential nicotine vaping product flavor restrictions among regular vapers using non-tobacco flavors: Findings from the 2020 ITC Smoking and Vaping Survey in Canada, England and the Unite	19
A systematic review of socio-ecological factors influencing current e-cigarette use among adolescents and young adults	19
Mental health and drinking to cope in the early COVID period: Data from the 2019–2020 US National Alcohol Survey	18
Associations between alcohol consumption and smoking variables among Latinx daily smokers	18
Long-term effects of opioid overdose prevention and response training on medical student knowledge and attitudes toward opioid overdose: A pilot study	18
Metacognitions as a predictor of online gaming in adolescents: Psychometric properties of the metacognitions about online gaming scale among Iranian adolescents	17
A quasi-experimental test of a virtual reality game prototype for adolescent E-Cigarette prevention	17
E-cigarette device and liquid characteristics and E-cigarette dependence: A pilot study of pod-based and disposable E-cigarette users	17
Adolescent drug use initiation and transition into other drugs: A retrospective longitudinal examination across race/ethnicity	17
Sleep and alcohol use among young adult drinkers with Insomnia: A daily process model	17
The impact of COVID-19 on addiction treatment in New Zealand	17
The associative underpinnings of negative urgency and its role in problematic gambling behavior	17
Event-level associations among minority stress, coping motives, and substance use among sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals	17
Fleeing through the mind’s eye: Desire thinking as a maladaptive coping mechanism among specific online activities	17
Problematic smartphone use and two types of problematic use of the internet and self-stigma among people with substance use disorders	17
Adolescents’ and young adults’ perceptions of risks and benefits differ by type of cannabis products	17
Reciprocal associations between shyness, depression, and Internet gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents: A cross-lagged panel study	17
Trending the evidence on opioid use disorder (OUD) continuum of care among rural American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) tribes: A systematic scoping review	16
Boredom and problematic Facebook use in adolescents: What is the relationship considering trait or state boredom?	16

Investigating interventions that lead to the highest treatment retention for emerging adults with substance use disorder: A systematic review	16
Cannabis use and social anxiety in young adulthood: A meta-analysis	16
E-cigarette use and change in plans to quit cigarette smoking among adult smokers in the United States: Longitudinal findings from the PATH Study 2014–2019	16
Has increased youth e-cigarette use in the USA, between 2014 and 2020, changed conventional smoking behaviors, future intentions to smoke and perceived smoking harms?	16
Has the prevalence of problematic social media use increased over the past seven years and since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic? A meta-analysis of the studies published since the development of t	16
Acute effects of alcohol on resting-state functional connectivity in healthy young men	16
All in the family: parental substance misuse, harsh parenting, and youth substance misuse among juvenile justice-involved youth	16
Implementation of a cluster randomized controlled trial: Identifying student peer leaders to lead E-cigarette interventions	16
State lockdown policies, mental health symptoms, and using substances	16
Identifying pathways to recent non-fatal overdose among people who use opioids non-medically: How do psychological pain and unmet mental health need contribute to overdose risk?	16
Problematic smartphone use: The role of reward processing, depressive symptoms and self-control	16
Maladaptive cognitions, loneliness, and social anxiety as potential moderators of the association between Internet gaming time and Internet gaming disorder among adolescent Internet gamers in China	16
Peer-based recovery support services delivered at recovery community organizations: Predictors of improvements in individual recovery capital	16
An evaluation of the practice of transparency and reproducibility in addiction medicine literature	16
Dissemination of CATCH My Breath, a middle school E-Cigarette prevention program	16
Specific emotion-regulation processes explain the relationship between mindfulness and self-compassion with coping-motivated alcohol and marijuana use	16
Validation of the craving scale in a large sample of adults with substance use disorders	15
Examining the neighborhood-level socioeconomic characteristics associated with fatal overdose by type of drug involved and overdose setting	15
Changes in alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic among American veterans	15
Optimizing screening for depression, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder in inpatient addiction treatment: A preliminary investigation	15
Difficulties regulating positive and negative emotions in relation to coping motives for alcohol use and alcohol problems among hazardous drinkers	15
The efficacy of cue exposure therapy on alcohol use disorders: A quantitative meta-analysis and systematic review	15
Curing the broken brain model of addiction: Neurorehabilitation from a systems perspective	15
Predicting problematic pornography use among male returning US veterans	15
The emotion regulatory function of online social networking: Preliminary experimental evidence	15
Rumination and worry as putative mediators explaining the association between emotional disorders and alcohol use disorder in a longitudinal study	15
Cannabis use as a predictor and outcome of positive and negative affect in college students: An ecological momentary assessment study	15
Association between e-cigarette use and sleep deprivation in U.S. Young adults: Results from the 2017 and 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System	15
Top-down and bottom-up attentional biases for smoking-related stimuli: Comparing dependent and non-dependent smokers	15
Evaluation of a virtual reality E-cigarette prevention game for adolescents	15
The Internet addiction test: Psychometric properties, socio-demographic risk factors and addictive co-morbidities in a large adult sample	14
Cigarillo and multiple tobacco product use and nicotine dependence in adolescents and young adults	14
The association of prefrontal cortex response during a natural reward cue-reactivity paradigm, anhedonia, and demoralization in persons maintained on methadone	14
A reward and incentive-sensitization perspective on compulsive use of social networking sites – Wanting but not liking predicts checking frequency and problematic use behavior	14
Toward a better understanding of the influence of repetitive negative thinking in alcohol use disorder: An examination of moderation effect of metacognitive beliefs and gender	14
How to pin a compulsive behavior down: A systematic review and conceptual synthesis of compulsivity-sensitive items in measures of behavioral addiction	14
Alcohol consumption and associations with sociodemographic and health-related characteristics in Germany: A population survey	14
Craving and emotional responses to trauma and cannabis cues in trauma-exposed cannabis users: Influence of PTSD symptom severity	14
Differences between adults who smoke cigarettes daily and do and do not co-use cannabis: Findings from the 2020 ITC four country smoking and vaping survey	14
Do emotion regulation and impulsivity differ according to gambling preferences in clinical samples of gamblers?	14
Does childhood maltreatment increase the subsequent risk of problematic smartphone use among adolescents? A two-wave longitudinal study	14
Differences in cigarette smoking quit attempts and cessation between adults who did and did not take up nicotine vaping: Findings from the ITC four country smoking and vaping surveys	14
Investigating gaming disorder and individual differences in gaming motives among professional and non-professional gamers: An empirical study	14
Reward-related attentional capture predicts non-abstinence during a one-month abstinence challenge	14
Perceived reward from using cigarettes with alcohol or cannabis and concurrent use: A smartphone-based daily diary study	14
Mood-induced changes in the cortical processing of food images in bulimia nervosa	14
Electronic cigarette use and risk of cigarette and smokeless tobacco initiation among adolescent boys: A propensity score matched analysis	14
The effect of Varenicline and Bupropion on smoking cessation: A network meta-analysis of 20 randomized controlled trials	14
Methamphetamine use and technology-mediated psychosocial interventions: A mini-review	14
The effects of emotion dysregulation and negative affect on urge to smoke and nicotine dependence: The different roles of metacognitions about smoking	14
E-cigarette use among Hispanics: Reducing risk or recruiting new tobacco users?	14
Time spent on social media and alcohol use among adolescents: A longitudinal study	14
Have we overlooked the influence of “wine-mom” culture on alcohol consumption among mothers?	14
Does anxiety sensitivity predict addiction severity in opioid use disorder?	14
Altered functional connectivity of the dorsal attention network among problematic social network users	14
Mobile phone-based messaging for tobacco cessation in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review	14
The association between gambling marketing and unplanned gambling spend: Synthesised findings from two online cross-sectional surveys	14
Gaming passion contributes to the definition and identification of problematic gaming	14
The association between type of trauma, level of exposure and addiction	14
E-cigarette, combustible, and smokeless tobacco product use combinations among youth in the united states, 2014–2019	14
Associations of housing stress with later substance use outcomes: A systematic review	14
Association between trajectories of problematic mobile phone use and chronotype among Chinese college students	13
Pareto distributions in online casino gambling: Sensitivity to timeframe and associations with self exclusion	13
Adult use of highly-potent Δ9-THC cannabis concentrate products by U.S. state cannabis legalization status, 2021	13
Cigarette smoking frequency, quantity, dependence, and quit intentions during adolescence: Comparison of menthol and non-menthol smokers (National Youth Tobacco Survey 2017–2020)	13
Daily-level analysis of drinking intensity and acute physical consequences	13
Is alexithymia related to retention and relapses in patients with substance use disorders?: A one year follow-up study	13
Prologue to the special issue on predrinking and drinking game behaviors among adolescents and young adults in the United States and across the globe: Definitions and overview of prevalence rates	13
Disparities in the frequency of tobacco products use by sexual identity status	13
Changes in cannabis use modes among Canadian youth across recreational cannabis legalization: Data from the COMPASS prospective cohort study	13
Causes of smoking relapse in the 12 months after smoking cessation treatment: Affective and cigarette dependence–related factors	13
Unplanned vs. planned drinking: Event-level influences of drinking motives and affect	13
Police Officers’ addiction frameworks and policy attitudes	13
Intention to drink and alcohol use before 18 years among Australian adolescents: An extended Theory of Planned Behavior	13
What is binge drinking? Insights from a network perspective	13
Examining protocol compliance and self-report congruence between daily diaries and event-contingent ecological momentary assessments of college student drinking	13
What kind of smoking identity following quitting would elevate smokers relapse risk?	12
Combinations of electronic nicotine delivery system device and liquid characteristics among U.S. adults	12
Chasing the desire: An investigation on the role of craving, time perspective, and alcohol use in adolescent gambling	12
Social networking site use and alcohol use behaviors among adolescents: A latent profile analysis	12
The influence of meaning in life on children and adolescents’ problematic smartphone use: A three-wave multiple mediation model	12
Event-level patterns of methamphetamine and poly-drug use among millennial sexual minority men: The P18 Cohort Study	12
Effects of alcohol warning labels on alcohol-related cognitions among German adolescents: A factorial experiment	12
A novel approach to training educators to conduct school-based adolescent e-cigarette education and prevention: Using the Tobacco Prevention Toolkit	12
Does how you use matter? The link between mode of use and cannabis-related risk	12
Development and validation of a cannabis cue stimulus set	12
Psychometric properties of the Metacognitions about Smartphone Use Questionnaire (MSUQ) in a sample of iranians	12
Increases in methamphetamine injection among treatment admissions in the U.S	12
Profiles of motivations for responsible drinking among college students: A self-determination theory perspective	12
Cannabis retailer marketing strategies and regulatory compliance: A surveillance study of retailers in 5 US cities	12
Assessing methamphetamine-related cue reactivity in people with methamphetamine use disorder relative to controls	12
Nicotine vaping for relaxation and coping: Race/ethnicity differences and social connectedness mechanisms	12
How is intolerance of uncertainty related to negative affect in individuals with substance use disorders? The role of the inability to control behaviors when experiencing emotional distress	11
Drinking to cope mediates the link between work-family conflict and alcohol use among mothers but not fathers of preschool children	11
Digital marketing of smokeless tobacco: A longitudinal analysis of exposure and initiation among young adults	11