International Journal of Drug Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Drug Policy is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Quasi-experimental study on the impact of local smoke-free policies on smoking among Indonesian adults: Evidence from repeated national health surveys196
A content analysis of cannabis edibles package marketing in the United States119
Co-designing the INHSU Prisons Hepatitis C Advocacy Toolkit using the Advocacy Strategy Framework113
Bridging the gap: An environmental scan of post-overdose program features and evaluation measures90
Illicit drug prices and quantity discounts: A comparison between a cryptomarket, social media, and police data69
Shifting awareness among electronic dance music party attendees that drugs may contain fentanyl or other adulterants64
‘Choice’ of social media platform or encrypted messaging app to buy and sell illegal drugs64
International property rights for Cannabis landraces and terroir products. The case of Moroccan Cannabis and hashish63
Opioid prescribing restrictions and opioid use among the Louisiana Medicaid population63
Editorial Board62
Editorial Board61
Incarceration history, antiretroviral therapy, and stigma: A cross-sectional study of people with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia60
Editorial Board58
Publisher's Note55
Inconsistencies between national drug policy and professional beliefs about psychoactive drugs among psychiatrists in the United States54
Opioid agonist therapy engagement and crystal methamphetamine use: The impact of unregulated opioid use in Vancouver, Canada53
Visitors of the Dutch drug checking services: Profile and drug use experience52
A matter of craving–An archeology of relapse prevention in Swedish addiction treatment48
Rethinking enhancement substance use: A critical discourse studies approach48
Identifying how the principles of self-determination could be applied to create effective alcohol policy for First Nations Australians: Synthesising the lessons from the development of general public 48
Doing more with less: A proposal to advance cigarette packaging regulations in the United States47
Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area47
High HCV cure rates among people who inject drugs and have suboptimal adherence: A patient-centered approach to HCV models of care47
The introduction of fentanyl on the US–Mexico border: An ethnographic account triangulated with drug checking data from Tijuana47
Leveraging pooled medical examiner records to surveil complex and emerging patterns of polysubstance use in the United States45
Identifying barriers and enablers to opt-out hepatitis C virus screening in provincial prisons in Quebec, Canada: A multilevel, multi-theory informed qualitative study with correctional and healthcare45
Enhancing equity-oriented care in psychedelic medicine: Utilizing the EQUIP framework45
The social-structural contexts of cannabis consumption and harm reduction among young Nigerian women42
Diversion of medications to treat opioid use disorder: Qualitative findings from formerly incarcerated adults in Massachusetts42
Older age at smoking initiation predicts successful cessation in adults who smoke: A prospective study42
Medication for opioid use disorder treatment continuity post-release from jail: A qualitative study with community-based treatment providers41
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of take-home doses of opioid agonist therapy in Ontario, Canada: A population-based time-series analysis41
Increased solitary drug use during COVID-19: An unintended consequence of social distancing40
Trends in the use of cannabis products in Canada and the USA, 2018 – 2020: Findings from the International Cannabis Policy Study40
I don't even want to go to the doctor when I get sick now: Healthcare experiences and discrimination reported by people who use drugs, Arizona 201939
The war on drugs in Southeast Asia as ‘state vigilantism’38
The hammer and the nail: The triple lock of methods, realities and institutional contexts in Australian research on nightlife violence37
The impact of an easy access drug supply management policy law on the consumption and abuse of opioids in Catalonia: A population-based study37
‘As for dignity and respect…. me bollix’: A human rights-based exploration of service user narratives in Irish methadone maintenance treatment37
Cannabis industry lobbying in the Colorado state legislature in fiscal years 2010–202137
Big business: The private sector market for image and performance enhancing drug harm reduction in the UK36
Editorial Board36
Associations of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody positivity with opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance injection among people who inject drugs (PWID) in rural U.S. communities36
A readiness assessment for the prevention of alcohol-related harm in West Africa: A new methodological approach to inform practice and policy36
Does cannabis testing in the military drive synthetic cannabinoid use? Self-reported use motivations among justice-involved veterans36
The practice and embodiment of “goofballs”: A qualitative study exploring the co-injection of methamphetamines and opioids35
Utilising an access to care integrated framework to explore the perceptions of hepatitis C treatment of hospital-based interventions among people who use drugs35
Psychosocial stress and methamphetamine use: A mixed-methods study of intersectional stigma and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander methamphetamine use35
Cannabis reduction among adolescents as spillover from successful tobacco control34
Societal costs of illegal drug use in Sweden34
How do patient, pharmacist and medication characteristics and prescription drug monitoring program alerts influence pharmacists' decisions to dispense opioids? A randomised controlled factorial experi33
Updates on syringe coverage and service uptake among needle and syringe programs in the United States, 2019–202033
Erratum regarding previously published papers33
Harms to children from the financial effects of others’ drinking33
Declining prevalence of current HCV infection and increased treatment uptake among people who inject drugs: The ETHOS Engage study32
Applying a mutual capacity building model to inform peer provider programs in South Africa and the United States: A combined qualitative analysis32
Classic psychedelics in the treatment of substance use disorder: Potential synergies with twelve-step programs32
The harms of punishing substance use during pregnancy32
Playing at the edges, navigating sexual boundaries, and narrating sexual distress; Practices and perspectives of sexuality and gender diverse people who use GHB32
Buprenorphine dispensing before and after the April 2021 X-Waiver exemptions: An interrupted time series analysis32
State sanctioned killing in the name of drugs: Laws, practice and conflicting trends in Asia31
Transnational alcohol corporations in Nigeria as commercial determinants of health: Implications for policy31
Strategies for addressing needle debris: A scoping review of needle debris and discarded drug paraphernalia associated with substance use29
Substance use among refugees in three Lebanese camps: A cross-sectional study29
Putting tendencies and trajectories to work: useful tools for engaging with accounts of change and recovery?29
A stakeholder-driven framework for measuring potential change in the health risks of people who inject drugs (PWID) during the COVID-19 pandemic28
Hepatitis C treatment as prevention in the prison setting: Assessments of acceptability of treatment scale up efforts by prison correctional and health personnel28
Likelihood of using a harm reduction vending machine among rural people who inject drugs in Appalachian Kentucky28
Your diagnosis will not protect you (and neither will academia): Reckoning with education and Dis-Ease28
Changes in arrests following decriminalization of low-level drug possession in Oregon and Washington28
Ethical justifications for safe supply interventions27
High levels of all-cause mortality among people who inject drugs from 2018 to 202227
Spotting as a risk mitigation method: A qualitative study comparing organization-based and informal methods27
‘Pretty in Pink’ and ‘Girl Power’: An analysis of the targeting and representation of women in alcohol brand marketing on Facebook and Instagram27
Heavy burden of non-fatal overdose among people who inject drugs in San Francisco, 202227
Co-located Heroin Assisted Treatment within primary care: A preliminary analysis of the implications for healthcare access, cost, and treatment delivery in the UK27
Higher methadone dose at time of release from prison predicts linkage to maintenance treatment for people with HIV and opioid use disorder transitioning to the community in Malaysia27
Suboptimal uptake and placement of a mandatory alcohol pregnancy warning label in Australia27
Consent and violence amongst men in the context of sexualised drug use: A systematic scoping review27
Substance use prevention interventions for children and young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review26
Understanding overdose incidents in Canadian federal custody26
Consumer protection in drug policy: The human rights case for safe supply as an element of harm reduction26
COVID-19 economic impact payments and opioid overdose deaths26
A qualitative study of a publicly funded pharmacy-dispensed naloxone program26
Measuring drug policy evolution: A cross-country analysis26
Comparing police use of drug detection dogs amongst injecting and non-injecting groups of people who regularly use drugs in Australia26
Becoming a nitrous oxide user on social media: Learning to maximise pleasures and minimise harms25
Do Australians use the prescription pathway when using nicotine vaping products to quit smoking?25
Drug transactions and the dark web: Public perceptions of the locational setting of offenders and support for drug policy outcomes25
Low daily oral PrEP adherence and low validity of self-report in a randomized trial among PWID in Ukraine25
“What I should be doing is harm reduction, if I'm doing my job right”: Engagement with harm reduction principles among prosecutors enacting drug policy reform in the United States25
Heavy episodic drinking and HIV disclosure by HIV treatment status among People with HIV in IeDEA Cameroon25
An examination of the role of changes in country-level leisure time internet use and computer gaming on adolescent drinking in 33 European countries25
Vaccination coverage among people who inject drugs: A systematic review25
Trends in young people accessing English alcohol treatment services: 2014 to 202325
How can communities influence alcohol licensing at a local level? Licensing officers’ perspectives of the barriers and facilitators to sustaining engagement in a volunteer-led alcohol harm reduction a25
Self-reported and measured adherence to hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral therapy and sustained virologic response among people who inject drugs: The HERO study24
Editorial Board24
Tackling the overdose crisis through unionization: A response to Rivera & Friedman (2024)24
Editorial Board24
Has the treatment gap for opioid use disorder narrowed in the U.S.?: A yearly assessment from 2010 to 2019”24
The relationship between cryptomarket drug purchase, social networks and adverse drug events: A cross-sectional study24
Minimum legal age laws and perceived access to cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and other substances among youth in Canada, England, and the United States: 2017-202124
Recreational cannabis excise taxation in the USA: Constructing a comparable tax measure for empirical analysis24
Haven't I waited long enough? The role of wait times and subjective impairment in cannabis-related driving behavior24
The impact of alcohol minimum unit pricing on people with experience of homelessness: Qualitative study24
Editorial Board24
Prevalence of comorbid substance use disorders among people with opioid use disorder: A systematic review & meta-analysis23
Public support for reinvesting resources from enforcing drug possession to health-promoting alternatives: A nationally representative poll of adults in the United States23
Assessing HIV and overdose risks for people who use drugs exposed to compulsory drug abstinence programs (CDAP): A systematic review and meta-analysis23
Stronger, longer, better opioid antagonists? Nalmefene is NOT a naloxone replacement23
Social and structural determinants of health associated with police violence victimization: A latent class analysis of female sex workers who use drugs in Kazakhstan23
Interconnected influence: Unraveling purdue pharmaceutical's role in the global response to the opioid crisis23
2S/LGBTQ+ youth substance use and pathways to homelessness: A photovoice study23
Drugs, guns, and violent crime in California23
Problematizing “patient stability” in opioid use disorder care: Flexible definitions, (in)flexible treatment23
“Undisciplined” drinking, multi-sectoralism and political power: Examining problematisations in the Botswana alcohol policy23
Drug use typology, demographic covariates, and associations with condomless anal sex: A latent class analysis among a U.S. national cohort of men who have sex with men23
Municipal socioeconomic environment and recreational cannabis use in Mexico: Analysis of two nationally representative surveys23
Access and care for people with opioid use disorder in U.S. skilled nursing facilities: A policy commentary23
Psychedelic discourses: A qualitative study of discussions in a Danish online forum23
Bereaved mothers’ engagement in drug policy reform: A multisite qualitative analysis23
Effectiveness and implementability of state-level naloxone access policies: Expert consensus from an online modified-Delphi process22
Slamsex as slow edgework: Sexualized drug use and harm reduction in post-AIDS Taiwan22
Predictors of intentional fentanyl use: Market availability vs consumer demand22
Cannabis legalization and changes in cannabis and tobacco/nicotine use and co-use in a national cohort of U.S. adults during 2017–202122
“Harm per litre” as a concept and a measure in studying determinants of relations between alcohol consumption and harm22
The details of decriminalization: Designing a non-criminal response to the possession of drugs for personal use22
Community-level determinants of stakeholder perceptions of community stigma toward people with opioid use disorders, harm reduction services and treatment in the HEALing Communities Study22
The success rate of online illicit drug transactions during a global pandemic21
Implementing a peer-supported, integrated strategy for substance use disorder care in an outpatient infectious disease clinic is associated with improved patient outcomes21
The benefits and challenges of virtual SMART recovery mutual-help groups: Participant and facilitator perspectives21
Editorial Board21
The intersection of substance use stigma and anti-Black racial stigma: A scoping review21
Standard THC units: A tool to benchmark cannabis-related driving risks21
Exploring trauma and wellbeing of people who use drugs after witnessing overdose: A qualitative study20
Cost-effectiveness of mass screening for Hepatitis C virus among all inmates in an Irish prison20
Decisional considerations for methadone uptake in Kyrgyz prisons: The importance of understanding context and providing accurate information20
We are the researched, the researchers, and the discounted: The experiences of drug user activists as researchers20
Synergistic effects of exposure to multiple types of violence on non-fatal drug overdose among women who inject drugs in Indonesia20
Naloxone cascade of care among people who regularly inject drugs in Australia, 2020–202220
Patients prefer free drug disposal options delivered by pharmacists at the point of care: Results of a decision tree analysis of a national factorial vignette panel survey20
“It’s not just the hit itself”: the social practice of injecting drug use among gay and bisexual men in Australia19
Editorial Board19
Post-retirement enlightenment syndrome: Worthy of investigation19
A pilot implementation study to scale-up methadone in incarcerated persons with opioid use disorder and retain them on treatment after release in Moldova19
Beverage-specific consumption trends: A cross-country, cross-sectional comparison19
Editorial Board19
How medical are states’ medical cannabis policies?: Proposing a standardized scale19
‘Keeping a lid on it’: Exploring ‘problematisations’ of prescribed medication in prisons in the UK19
Characterizing changes in drug use behaviour following supply shortages of 5-MeO-DIPT, alkyl nitrites and new psychoactive substances among men living with HIV in Japan19
Examining the association between trenbolone, psychological distress, and aggression among males who use anabolic-androgenic steroids19
Pharmacotherapies for cannabis use disorder: A systematic review and network meta-analysis19
The importance of PEOPLE who use drugs within drug policy reform debates: Findings from the UK Drug Policy Voices online survey18
Current regulations in context: Scraping Australia's online nitrous oxide market18
Women's experiences in injectable opioid agonist treatment programs in Vancouver, Canada18
The impacts of COVID-19 on structural inequities faced by people living with HIV who inject drugs: A qualitative study in St. Petersburg, Russia18
Barriers and advocacy needs for hepatitis C services in prisons: Informing the prisons hepatitis C advocacy toolkit18
The association between social capital and drug overdose mortality in the United States18
Decline in youth drinking in high-income settings: Implications for public health in low-income countries18
Through the wine glass: How biographical midlife transitions and women's affective interpretations interact with alcohol consumption18
The Baltic and Nordic responses to the first Taliban poppy ban: Implications for Europe & synthetic opioids today18
Beyond the smoke: Historical analysis of the revenue implications of state cigarette tax policies, 1989 to 201918
Performance and image enhancing drug interventions aimed at increasing knowledge among healthcare professionals (HCP): reflections on the implementation of the Dopinglinkki e-module in Europe and Aust18
Beyond a ‘post-cure’ world: Sketches for a new futurology of hepatitis C17
Recovery as a minor practice17
Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction17
Trends in cannabis use among U.S. adults amid the COVID-19 pandemic17
Radical hospitality: Innovative programming to build community and meet the needs of people who use drugs at a government-sanctioned overdose prevention site in San Francisco, California17
Reprint of: Biotechnologies and the future of opioid addiction treatments17
Holding ‘new recovery’ together: Organising relations and forms of coordination in professional sociomaterial practices of addiction recovery17
Corrigendum to ‘Substances from unregulated drug markets – A retrospective data analysis of customer-provided samples from a decade of drug checking service in Zurich (Switzerland)’ [Volume 114, April17
Association between fatal opioid overdose and state medical cannabis laws in US national survey data, 2000-201117
Restrictive opioid prescribing policies and evolving risk environments: A qualitative study of the perspectives of patients who experienced an accidental opioid overdose17
Digital localisation in an illicit market space: interactional creation of a psychedelic assemblage in a darknet community of exchange17
Substances from unregulated drug markets – A retrospective data analysis of customer-provided samples from a decade of drug checking service in Zurich (Switzerland)17
Adoption of methadone take home policy by U.S. state opioid treatment authorities during COVID-1917
Availability and use of non-prescribed buprenorphine-naloxone in a Canadian setting, 2014–202017
“I've lost my children to vaping”: A frame analysis of the Australian media's construction of the “Youth vaping crisis”17
“It should be hard to be a drug abuser” An evaluation of the criminalization of drug use in Sweden17
An on-site community-based model for hepatitis C screening, diagnosis, and treatment among people who inject drugs in Kerman, Iran: The Rostam study16
Drug treatment and support service utilization amidst the COVID-19 pandemic among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, Maryland: An interrupted time-series analysis, 2015–202216
“There’s a lot of stereotypes going on”: A cross-national qualitative analysis of the place of gender in declining youth drinking16
Association between U.S. state prenatal drug use laws and child welfare reporting in Alabama, Maryland and Utah16
96-week retention in treatment with extended-release subcutaneous buprenorphine depot injections among people with opioid dependence: Extended follow-up after a single-arm trial16
Monitoring for fentanyl within Australian supervised injecting facilities: Findings from feasibility testing of novel methods and collaborative workshops16
Voices represented and voices silenced: Represented voices in the media coverage of the implementation of a supervised injecting facility16
Conceptualizing overdose trauma: The relationships between experiencing and witnessing overdoses with PTSD symptoms among street-recruited female sex workers in Baltimore, Maryland16
Volatile substances are an amorphous category, making it hard to build a comprehensive body of research16
Using a “Big Events” framework to understand emergency department use among women experiencing homelessness or housing instability in San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic16
Decrease in provider stigma is associated with improved quality health indicators among individuals receiving methadone in primary care centers in Ukraine16
Facilitating access to direct-acting antivirals in a community-based point-of-diagnosis model for hepatitis C treatment: The role of the pharmacy team in the no one waits (NOW) study16
A call for compassionate opioid overdose response16
Disentangling opioids-related overdose syndemics: a scoping review16
Simulating the impact of Addiction Consult Services in the context of drug supply contamination, hospitalizations, and drug-related mortality15
High and highly bonded: Fused football fans who use cocaine are most likely to be aggressive toward rivals15
Post-Brexit opportunities for tobacco policy reform and tobacco harm reduction in the UK15
Defining a public health approach to substance use: Perspectives from professionals and practitioners across Canada15
‘I just drink to feel abnormal for some time’: Reconfiguring heavy drinking and intoxication as pleasurable15
Analysis of gaps in alcohol policies in Brazil using the Pan American Health Organization's Alcohol Policy Scoring15
The role of gifts in building influence with politicians: Thematic analysis of interviews with current and former parliamentarians15
Impact of COVID-19 on the characteristics of opioid overdose deaths in Arkansas15
Understanding challenges for recovery homes during COVID-1915
Carfentanil on the darknet: Potential scam or alarming public health threat?15
Unpacking the differing understandings of “alcohol industry” in public health research15
From Anti-doping-I to Anti-doping-II: Toward a paradigm shift for doping prevention in sport14
‘Some days I am a lunatic that thinks I can moderate’: Amalgamating recovery and neo-liberal discourses within accounts of non-drinking among women active in the ‘positive sobriety’ community on Insta14
Policy actor views on structural vulnerability in harm reduction and policymaking for illegal drugs: A qualitative study14
Pathways between COVID-19 public health responses and increasing overdose risks: A rapid review and conceptual framework14
Socio-ecological and pharmacy-level factors associated with buprenorphine stocking at pharmacies in New York City14
Where to next? An exploration of ‘night-out’ location progression and propensity to experience violence in night -time entertainment precincts14
Drug policy goals in a changing landscape: Perspectives of practitioners in Japan14
‘Red Flags’ and ‘Red Tape’: Telehealth and pharmacy-level barriers to buprenorphine in the United States14
Can alcohol policy prevent harms to women and children from men's alcohol consumption? An overview of existing literature and suggested ways forward14
Cognitive enhancing drug use by students in the context of neoliberalism: cheating? Or, a legitimate expression of competitive entrepreneurialism?14
Deadly serious: The United Nations, drugs, and capital punishment in the 1980s14
Community-administered naloxone for overdose reversal: The role of sex worker-led programming and occupational violence in a community-based cohort (2018–2024)14
Coordination, cooperation, and creativity within harm reduction networks in Iran: COVID-19 prevention and control among people who use drugs14
Not just fentanyl: Understanding the complexities of the unregulated opioid supply through results from a drug checking service in British Columbia, Canada14
The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in rural and remote populations: Systematic review and meta-analyses14
Drug induced homicide laws may worsen opioid related harms: An example from rural North Carolina14
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV positive men who inject drugs in Pakistan14
Addressing the complex substance use and mental health needs of people leaving prison: Insights from developing a national inventory of services in Canada13
Factors associated with attending “open bar” parties amongst early adolescents13
“Apparently, you can only be treated once”: A qualitative study exploring perceptions of hepatitis C and access to treatment among people who inject drugs visiting a needle and syringe program13
Are dietary supplement users more likely to dope than non-users?: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
Are recreational cannabis laws associated with declining medical cannabis program enrollment in the U.S.? An analysis of cardholder enrollment and demographic characteristics from 2013 to 202013
Editorial Board13
Connecting patients notified with hepatitis C to treatment (CONNECT Study): A randomized controlled trial of active case management by a health department to support primary care practitioners13
The emerging norms of e-cigarette use among adolescents: A meta-ethnography of qualitative evidence13
‘I just thought that was the best thing for me to do at this point’: Exploring patient experiences with depot buprenorphine and their motivations to discontinue13
Factors associated with hepatitis C testing, treatment, and current hepatitis C infection among men and women who inject drugs: The ETHOS engage study13
Alcohol policy changes during the first three-months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Development and application of a classification scheme13
Long-term patterns of treatment use for opioid use disorder (OUD): Findings from the 18-20-year Australian Treatment Outcome Study13
Exploring multiple drug use by integrating mobile health and qualitative mapping methods - An individual case study13
Out of pocket expenses: effect of fee-waivers on opioid prescribing and dispensing13
Unlocking deflection: The role of supervisor support in police officer willingness to refer people who inject drugs to harm reduction services13
Public transport access to drug treatment before and during COVID-19: Implications for the opioid epidemic13
Understanding the longitudinal relationship between substance use and violent victimization among street-based women who exchange sex in Baltimore, Maryland13
Using synthetic controls to estimate the population-level effects of Ontario's recently implemented overdose prevention sites and consumption and treatment services13
Hepatitis C incidence among patients attending primary care health services that specialise in the care of people who inject drugs, Victoria, Australia, 2009 to 202013
Towards equity for people who inject drugs in HIV prevention drug trials13
Programmatic alcohol advertising, social media and public health: Algorithms, automated challenges to regulation, and the failure of public oversight13
Stimulant-involved overdose deaths: Constructing dynamic hypotheses13
“Another tool in the toolkit”—Perceptions, suggestions, and concerns of emergency service providers about the implementation of a supervised consumption site12
Multilevel determinants of cannabis prices in legal markets: Evidence from products sold in nearly 4000 cannabis dispensaries in the United States12
Reimbursing incarcerated individuals for participation in research: A scoping review12
Editorial Board12
Political constructions of people who use drugs in the Philippines: A qualitative content analysis12
Assisted injection provider practices and motivations in Los Angeles and San Francisco California 2016–1812
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