International Journal of Drug Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Drug Policy is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Publisher's Note287
Editorial Board79
Opioid prescribing restrictions and opioid use among the Louisiana Medicaid population77
Editorial Board67
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Ecological dimensions of cannabis regulation in the Rif, Morocco59
The social-structural contexts of cannabis consumption and harm reduction among young Nigerian women53
Quasi-experimental study on the impact of local smoke-free policies on smoking among Indonesian adults: Evidence from repeated national health surveys50
Inconsistencies between national drug policy and professional beliefs about psychoactive drugs among psychiatrists in the United States49
Contentious legality in decentralized governance: The rise and decline of cannabis social clubs in Spain48
Opioid agonist therapy engagement and crystal methamphetamine use: The impact of unregulated opioid use in Vancouver, Canada46
Impact of health policies on opioid tapering and discontinuation among patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain46
Bridging the gap: An environmental scan of post-overdose program features and evaluation measures45
International property rights for Cannabis landraces and terroir products. The case of Moroccan Cannabis and hashish44
Medication for opioid use disorder treatment continuity post-release from jail: A qualitative study with community-based treatment providers42
Incarceration history, antiretroviral therapy, and stigma: A cross-sectional study of people with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia42
Co-designing the INHSU Prisons Hepatitis C Advocacy Toolkit using the Advocacy Strategy Framework42
Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area41
Leveraging pooled medical examiner records to surveil complex and emerging patterns of polysubstance use in the United States39
Older age at smoking initiation predicts successful cessation in adults who smoke: A prospective study39
Adapting the WHO MPOWER framework for E-cigarettes: Qualitative insights from South Korea38
Seizure-to-market ratios and the resilience of the drug markets in France (2010–2023)38
A content analysis of cannabis edibles package marketing in the United States36
A comprehensive analysis of jurisdiction-specific laws related to scheduling or required prescription drug monitoring of gabapentin in the United States, 2016–202436
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 healthcare35
Barriers to evidence-based alcohol policies in France: Insights from interviews with parliament members34
Diversion of medications to treat opioid use disorder: Qualitative findings from formerly incarcerated adults in Massachusetts34
‘Choice’ of social media platform or encrypted messaging app to buy and sell illegal drugs34
Doing more with less: A proposal to advance cigarette packaging regulations in the United States34
Increased solitary drug use during COVID-19: An unintended consequence of social distancing34
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 Malaysia33
‘As for dignity and respect…. me bollix’: A human rights-based exploration of service user narratives in Irish methadone maintenance treatment32
Cannabis reduction among adolescents as spillover from successful tobacco control32
Putting tendencies and trajectories to work: useful tools for engaging with accounts of change and recovery?32
Playing at the edges, navigating sexual boundaries, and narrating sexual distress; Practices and perspectives of sexuality and gender diverse people who use GHB31
Does cannabis testing in the military drive synthetic cannabinoid use? Self-reported use motivations among justice-involved veterans31
Updates on syringe coverage and service uptake among needle and syringe programs in the United States, 2019–202030
Applying a mutual capacity building model to inform peer provider programs in South Africa and the United States: A combined qualitative analysis30
A stakeholder-driven framework for measuring potential change in the health risks of people who inject drugs (PWID) during the COVID-19 pandemic30
Strategies for addressing needle debris: A scoping review of needle debris and discarded drug paraphernalia associated with substance use30
Stronger isn’t always better: Nalmefene in community overdose response and the false promise of quick-fix public health solutions29
Does diverting minor drug offenders reduce recidivism? Cannabis cautioning in Australia29
Uncovered, underfunded, and undervalued: How policy contexts shape knowledge production in multi-site substance use trials28
Quantitative controls on the number and/or location of alcohol retail outlets: an overview of approaches in the USA and Canada28
Impact of alcohol excise taxation and structural reforms on per capita consumption in Thailand, 1995–2021: an interrupted time-series analysis28
Transnational alcohol corporations in Nigeria as commercial determinants of health: Implications for policy28
Speed and smoking kill: A time-varying survival analysis linking methamphetamine use, cigarette smoking, and mortality in sexual minority men28
How do patient, pharmacist and medication characteristics and prescription drug monitoring program alerts influence pharmacists' decisions to dispense opioids? A randomised controlled factorial experi28
The hammer and the nail: The triple lock of methods, realities and institutional contexts in Australian research on nightlife violence28
Assessing progress toward the World Health Organization’s Global action plan alcohol reduction target in Sub-Saharan Africa 2010–201927
The effectiveness of the communities that HEAL intervention on reducing non-fatal opioid overdoses: A prespecified secondary analysis of a waitlist cluster control randomized controlled trial27
Parenting and heavy substance use: From neutralization theory to actor-network theory to avoid stigmatizing participants27
Changes in arrests following decriminalization of low-level drug possession in Oregon and Washington27
Drug markets and violence in Colombia: Where do we stand, and how do we move forward?26
Psychosocial stress and methamphetamine use: A mixed-methods study of intersectional stigma and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander methamphetamine use26
Buprenorphine dispensing before and after the April 2021 X-Waiver exemptions: An interrupted time series analysis26
Societal costs of illegal drug use in Sweden26
Likelihood of using a harm reduction vending machine among rural people who inject drugs in Appalachian Kentucky26
The practice and embodiment of “goofballs”: A qualitative study exploring the co-injection of methamphetamines and opioids26
Exploring the benefits and challenges of lived and living experience among support workers in the alcohol, drug and mental health workforce in Australia25
Big business: The private sector market for image and performance enhancing drug harm reduction in the UK25
Associations of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody positivity with opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance injection among people who inject drugs (PWID) in rural U.S. communities25
Global cannabis cultivation as a gendered activity: Findings from the 2020 International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire24
“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 States24
Ethical justifications for safe supply interventions24
Use of fentanyl test strips by people who inject drugs: Longitudinal findings from the South Atlantic Fentanyl Test Strip Study (SAFTSS)24
Heavy burden of non-fatal overdose among people who inject drugs in San Francisco, 202223
Growing pains: A study of administrative burden and regulatory compliance in German Cannabis Cultivation Associations under the Cannabis Act23
Comparing police use of drug detection dogs amongst injecting and non-injecting groups of people who regularly use drugs in Australia23
Consent and violence amongst men in the context of sexualised drug use: A systematic scoping review23
Drug transactions and the dark web: Public perceptions of the locational setting of offenders and support for drug policy outcomes23
Becoming a nitrous oxide user on social media: Learning to maximise pleasures and minimise harms23
Low daily oral PrEP adherence and low validity of self-report in a randomized trial among PWID in Ukraine23
Reluctant risk-takers: how law enforcement practices at festivals can obstruct safer drug use23
Public attitudes and lifetime home cannabis cultivation – a survey after legalization in Germany22
Are the data good enough? Assessing cocaine markets and indicators in The Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden22
Trends in young people accessing English alcohol treatment services: 2014 to 202322
High levels of all-cause mortality among people who inject drugs from 2018 to 202222
Measuring drug policy evolution: A cross-country analysis21
Has the treatment gap for opioid use disorder narrowed in the U.S.?: A yearly assessment from 2010 to 2019”21
Confiscations, public health obstructions, and perpetual displacement: Experiences and perspectives on urban law enforcement practices during a period of “recriminalization” among people who use crimi21
Suboptimal uptake and placement of a mandatory alcohol pregnancy warning label in Australia21
Vaccination coverage among people who inject drugs: A systematic review21
Editorial Board21
Spotting as a risk mitigation method: A qualitative study comparing organization-based and informal methods21
From environmental disasters to emerging drugs; a framework to understand, map and assess drug-related early warning systems21
Do Australians use the prescription pathway when using nicotine vaping products to quit smoking?21
“A never-ending cycle”: The structural, economic and social (re)production of blood-borne virus transmission and bacterial infection amongst people who inject drugs in Queensland prisons21
Co-located Heroin Assisted Treatment within primary care: A preliminary analysis of the implications for healthcare access, cost, and treatment delivery in the UK21
Tackling the overdose crisis through unionization: A response to Rivera & Friedman (2024)20
The relationship between cryptomarket drug purchase, social networks and adverse drug events: A cross-sectional study20
Cannabis legalization and changes in cannabis and tobacco/nicotine use and co-use in a national cohort of U.S. adults during 2017–202120
Drugs, guns, and violent crime in California20
Editorial Board20
Naloxone cascade of care among people who regularly inject drugs in Australia, 2020–202220
Editorial Board20
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 men20
Minimum legal age laws and perceived access to cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and other substances among youth in Canada, England, and the United States: 2017-202120
Pre-implementation findings on the barriers and potential solutions to initiate same-day antiretroviral therapy among people who inject drugs in Malaysia20
2S/LGBTQ+ youth substance use and pathways to homelessness: A photovoice study19
The global epidemiology of injecting drug use, HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis among people who are incarcerated: a multistage systematic review19
The geography of drug markets, drug crime and systemic gang violence—Open drug scenes in Sweden19
Aging and street capital: Older men’s status and strategies in street culture19
Slamsex as slow edgework: Sexualized drug use and harm reduction in post-AIDS Taiwan19
Scapegoated communities, shared struggles: A call for solidarity with people who use drugs and queer and trans people19
Exploring the need for overdose prevention centers in England: A qualitative community-based participatory study on the perspectives of people who use drugs in public and semi-public environments19
Problematizing “patient stability” in opioid use disorder care: Flexible definitions, (in)flexible treatment19
A nationally representative repeated cross-sectional study of 10-year substance use trends among culturally and linguistically diverse Australians19
Psychedelic discourses: A qualitative study of discussions in a Danish online forum18
The impact of alcohol minimum unit pricing on people with experience of homelessness: Qualitative study18
Intersecting stigmas: How racial attitudes shape support for treatment and harm reduction for people who inject drugs18
Haven't I waited long enough? The role of wait times and subjective impairment in cannabis-related driving behavior18
The intersection of substance use stigma and anti-Black racial stigma: A scoping review18
Peer-led recruitment for equitable engagement of people who inject drugs: Evidence from the HEPCO cohort in Montreal, Canada18
Standard THC units: A tool to benchmark cannabis-related driving risks18
Wastewater-based evidence of pregabalin misuse in Türkiye: implications for drug policy and surveillance18
Self-reported and measured adherence to hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral therapy and sustained virologic response among people who inject drugs: The HERO study18
Access and care for people with opioid use disorder in U.S. skilled nursing facilities: A policy commentary18
Appearance of 2-MMC and 3-MMC on the illicit drug market in the Netherlands: A systematic narrative review of the prevalence and risks18
The benefits and challenges of virtual SMART recovery mutual-help groups: Participant and facilitator perspectives17
Prevalence of comorbid substance use disorders among people with opioid use disorder: A systematic review & meta-analysis17
Municipal socioeconomic environment and recreational cannabis use in Mexico: Analysis of two nationally representative surveys17
Negotiating drug use and work: a poststructural analysis of construction workers who use drugs amid decriminalization17
Social and structural determinants of health associated with police violence victimization: A latent class analysis of female sex workers who use drugs in Kazakhstan17
Recreational cannabis excise taxation in the USA: Constructing a comparable tax measure for empirical analysis17
“Harm per litre” as a concept and a measure in studying determinants of relations between alcohol consumption and harm16
Public support for reinvesting resources from enforcing drug possession to health-promoting alternatives: A nationally representative poll of adults in the United States16
Interconnected influence: Unraveling purdue pharmaceutical's role in the global response to the opioid crisis16
Coca is gone: Evaluating the unintended consequences of crop eradication on educational outcomes in a former cocaine enclave in the Upper Peruvian Amazon16
Editorial Board16
Community-level determinants of stakeholder perceptions of community stigma toward people with opioid use disorders, harm reduction services and treatment in the HEALing Communities Study16
Exploring trauma and wellbeing of people who use drugs after witnessing overdose: A qualitative study16
Implementing a peer-supported, integrated strategy for substance use disorder care in an outpatient infectious disease clinic is associated with improved patient outcomes16
Synergistic effects of exposure to multiple types of violence on non-fatal drug overdose among women who inject drugs in Indonesia16
The association between social capital and drug overdose mortality in the United States16
Countering the institutionalization of harm reduction through critical pragmatism16
Stronger, longer, better opioid antagonists? Nalmefene is NOT a naloxone replacement16
Editorial Board16
Post-retirement enlightenment syndrome: Worthy of investigation16
“I just saw the alcohol brand, I never really thought of the zeros”: Young people’s views of NoLo and alibi alcohol sponsorship15
Beyond the smoke: Historical analysis of the revenue implications of state cigarette tax policies, 1989 to 201915
Risky alcohol use and violence against women: cause or consequence?15
Prevalence and engagement with healthcare services for hepatitis B infection among people in prison in Australia: the AusHep study15
Exploring how an e-cigarette intervention influenced tobacco smoking behaviour in people accessing homelessness services: Findings from the SCeTCH trial process evaluation15
Through the wine glass: How biographical midlife transitions and women's affective interpretations interact with alcohol consumption15
Misalignment between ultra-processed status and ‘better for you’ claims on premix alcohol products15
Adoption of methadone take home policy by U.S. state opioid treatment authorities during COVID-1915
Impact of guidance issued during COVID-19 to expand access to take-home dosing of opioid agonist treatment (OAT) on OAT prescribing practices in primary care in Ireland: An interrupted time series ana15
Barriers and advocacy needs for hepatitis C services in prisons: Informing the prisons hepatitis C advocacy toolkit15
Needle and syringe coverage per injection and factors associated with needle sharing among clients of the Stockholm Needle and Syringe Program, 2013–202315
Beverage-specific consumption trends: A cross-country, cross-sectional comparison15
Transitions to legal cannabis markets: Legal market capture of cannabis expenditures in Canada following federal cannabis legalization15
The Baltic and Nordic responses to the first Taliban poppy ban: Implications for Europe & synthetic opioids today15
Women's experiences in injectable opioid agonist treatment programs in Vancouver, Canada15
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 Japan15
Doubts and disconnection: Police reflections on drug decriminalization in British Columbia in the first year of implementation15
The impacts of COVID-19 on structural inequities faced by people living with HIV who inject drugs: A qualitative study in St. Petersburg, Russia15
Current regulations in context: Scraping Australia's online nitrous oxide market15
Examining the association between trenbolone, psychological distress, and aggression among males who use anabolic-androgenic steroids15
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 survey15
Editorial - Supporting the best quality science and the rights of people who use drugs regardless of global policy changes: Perspectives from the co-Editors in Chief of the International Journal of Dr14
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) study14
“There’s a lot of stereotypes going on”: A cross-national qualitative analysis of the place of gender in declining youth drinking14
Corrigendum to “Sociological investigations of human enhancement drugs: The case of microdosing psychedelics” [International Journal of Drug Policy 95 (2021) 103099]14
Scoping review of the characteristics and implementation of routine outcome monitoring and feedback for adults and young people accessing alcohol and other drug use treatment14
“I've lost my children to vaping”: A frame analysis of the Australian media's construction of the “Youth vaping crisis”14
Drug treatment and support service utilization amidst the COVID-19 pandemic among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, Maryland: An interrupted time-series analysis, 2015–202214
Neutral attitude toward the utilization of psychedelic therapy for depression in the United Kingdom population14
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, April14
Dublin’s supervised injecting facility: An assessment of its impact on discarded needles14
Recovery as a minor practice14
Decline in youth drinking in high-income settings: Implications for public health in low-income countries14
Anti-doping measures in gyms and fitness centres: A mapping of practices in the state parties of the council of Europe’s anti-doping convention14
Monitoring for fentanyl within Australian supervised injecting facilities: Findings from feasibility testing of novel methods and collaborative workshops14
Voices represented and voices silenced: Represented voices in the media coverage of the implementation of a supervised injecting facility14
Editorial Board14
Family-centered interventions for people with substance use disorders in low-and middle-income country settings: a scoping review13
Hepatitis C treatment in a jail setting: A retrospective cohort analysis of low-barrier initiation of direct acting antivirals13
96-week retention in treatment with extended-release subcutaneous buprenorphine depot injections among people with opioid dependence: Extended follow-up after a single-arm trial13
Decrease in provider stigma is associated with improved quality health indicators among individuals receiving methadone in primary care centers in Ukraine13
Changing Trends in Nonmedical Gabapentin Use Among a Cohort of Rural Appalachian People Who Use Drugs: A Longitudinal Study Over the Time Period of Scheduling Changes in Kentucky13
Unpacking the differing understandings of “alcohol industry” in public health research13
“It should be hard to be a drug abuser” An evaluation of the criminalization of drug use in Sweden13
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, California13
A call for compassionate opioid overdose response13
Police experiences with cannabis legalization and perceptions of broader drug policy reform13
Volatile substances are an amorphous category, making it hard to build a comprehensive body of research13
Association between U.S. state prenatal drug use laws and child welfare reporting in Alabama, Maryland and Utah13
Impact of COVID-19 on the characteristics of opioid overdose deaths in Arkansas13
Leveraging web-scraped data to examine alcohol pricing: an Australian feasibility study with retail data13
System dynamics modeling to inform implementation of evidence-based prevention of opioid overdose and fatality: A state-level model from the New York HEALing Communities Study13
Substances from unregulated drug markets – A retrospective data analysis of customer-provided samples from a decade of drug checking service in Zurich (Switzerland)13
Pipes as an engagement tool: qualitative findings from a crack equipment and harm reduction training intervention in England13
Drug policy goals in a changing landscape: Perspectives of practitioners in Japan13
Disentangling opioids-related overdose syndemics: a scoping review13
Optimal provision of opioid agonist therapy (OAT) and needle and syringe programmes (NSP): a realist evaluation12
“Stigmatisation for poppers use is a sexualised mode of governance”: Lived experiences and counter-narratives of gay men who use poppers in mainland China12
Not just fentanyl: Understanding the complexities of the unregulated opioid supply through results from a drug checking service in British Columbia, Canada12
Implementation of a multi-component alcohol policy in Ireland: A qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators to implementation12
‘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 Insta12
A cost-effectiveness analysis of a multidisciplinary model of care on hepatitis C care among people released from provincial prison in Quebec, Canada12
The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in rural and remote populations: Systematic review and meta-analyses12
Policy actor views on structural vulnerability in harm reduction and policymaking for illegal drugs: A qualitative study12
The economic factors that determine smoking abstinence: a survival and mediation analysis12
Can alcohol policy prevent harms to women and children from men's alcohol consumption? An overview of existing literature and suggested ways forward12
Editorial Board12
Defining a public health approach to substance use: Perspectives from professionals and practitioners across Canada12
From Anti-doping-I to Anti-doping-II: Toward a paradigm shift for doping prevention in sport12
Framing drug policy reform: Third-sector advocacy and the 2024 New South Wales Drug Summit12
Culturally mediated recovery: A cross-perspective qualitative study of psychosocial treatment for drug dependence in South Korea12
A cross-national comparison of nonmedical and medical use of psychedelic drugs in the international cannabis policy study12
Programmatic alcohol advertising, social media and public health: Algorithms, automated challenges to regulation, and the failure of public oversight12
Are dietary supplement users more likely to dope than non-users?: A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Community-administered naloxone for overdose reversal: The role of sex worker-led programming and occupational violence in a community-based cohort (2018–2024)12
The role of gifts in building influence with politicians: Thematic analysis of interviews with current and former parliamentarians12
Public calls for service to the police: Trends before and during drug possession decriminalization in Oregon12
Factors associated with attending “open bar” parties amongst early adolescents11
Factors associated with hepatitis C testing, treatment, and current hepatitis C infection among men and women who inject drugs: The ETHOS engage study11
The matter of mattering in depot buprenorphine treatment11
Public transport access to drug treatment before and during COVID-19: Implications for the opioid epidemic11
Policing and access to harm reduction services among young people who use drugs and young Indigenous people who use drugs before and after the pilot implementation of decriminalization of personal pos11
Can real-world scaling up HCV treatment in people who inject drugs be cost-saving: an economic modelling study in the UK11
Where to next? An exploration of ‘night-out’ location progression and propensity to experience violence in night -time entertainment precincts11
Understanding the longitudinal relationship between substance use and violent victimization among street-based women who exchange sex in Baltimore, Maryland11
Editorial Board11
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 practitioners11
‘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 discontinue11
Using modelling and public health surveillance data to evidence progress towards the WHO incidence target for hepatitis C elimination in people who inject drugs - a review of complementary approaches 11
Psychomodulatory substances: New legislative framework for control of psychoactive substances in Czechia11
Unlocking deflection: The role of supervisor support in police officer willingness to refer people who inject drugs to harm reduction services11
Long-term patterns of treatment use for opioid use disorder (OUD): Findings from the 18-20-year Australian Treatment Outcome Study11
Multilevel determinants of cannabis prices in legal markets: Evidence from products sold in nearly 4000 cannabis dispensaries in the United States11
Using synthetic controls to estimate the population-level effects of Ontario's recently implemented overdose prevention sites and consumption and treatment services11
Like birds of a feather? A multi-case study on the connections between cannabis, tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical companies in legalized cannabis markets11
‘I don’t really want to speak up because they’re on a different level to me’: The stigma of not engaging in trauma talk11
“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 program11
Multidimensional assessment of access to medications for opioid use disorder across urban and rural communities: A scoping review11
Provision of harm reduction services in community pharmacies: Findings from an Australian national sample11
The Impact of Communicating the Benefits and Safety of Psilocybin on Policy Support: a Survey Based Experiment11
Alcohol policy changes during the first three-months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Development and application of a classification scheme11
Sex-specific trends in patterns of tobacco and nicotine use among young people in Denmark from 2020 to 2023: A multigroup latent class analysis11
Policing and drug market-related violence: competitive, internal and enforcement-related violence in UK County Lines11
How often we see alcohol in movies: A Systematic review and Meta-analysis10
The ‘knowing’ body in the becoming of buprenorphine depot treatment: A qualitative study10
Online marketing for alcohol home delivery and alcohol purchasing behaviour: A mixed-methods study10
Poppers, nitrous, and beyond: Patterns of inhalant use across sexual identity groups in the U.S., 2021–202310
Factors associated with experiencing stigma, discrimination, and negative health care treatment among people who inject drugs10
Outcomes and implications of British Columbia’s ‘drug decriminalization initiative’ for health-oriented drug policymaking10
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