Drug and Alcohol Review

Article	Citations
Alcohol use in times of the COVID 19: Implications for monitoring and policy	325
Loneliness among people with substance use problems: A narrative systematic review	81
Illicit drug use and harms in Australia in the context of COVID‐19 and associated restrictions: Anticipated consequences and initial responses	77
COVID‐19 and alcohol in Australia: Industry changes and public health impacts	72
Availability, retail price and potency of legal and illegal cannabis in Canada after recreational cannabis legalisation	72
Purchasing, consumption, demographic and socioeconomic variables associated with shifts in alcohol consumption during the COVID‐19 pandemic	63
The elusiveness of representativeness in general population surveys for alcohol	53
The burden of alcohol on health care during COVID‐19	51
Alcohol consumption, harms and policy developments in sub‐Saharan Africa: The case for stronger national and regional responses	48
Changes in alcohol use during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Europe: A meta‐analysis of observational studies	46
Accessibility of ‘essential’ alcohol in the time of COVID‐19: Casting light on the blind spots of licensing?	45
COVID‐19 makes a stronger research focus on home drinking more important than ever	41
Characterising the patterns of and factors associated with increased alcohol consumption since COVID‐19 in a UK sample	35
A new quantitative drug checking technology for harm reduction: Pilot study in Vancouver, Canada using paper spray mass spectrometry	35
Etizolam: A rapid review on pharmacology, non‐medical use and harms	35
How has access to legal cannabis changed over time? An analysis of the cannabis retail market in Canada 2 years following the legalisation of recreational cannabis	33
Alcohol control policies in Former Soviet Union countries: A narrative review of three decades of policy changes and their apparent effects	32
Online alcohol delivery is associated with heavier drinking during the first New Zealand COVID‐19 pandemic restrictions	31
Characterising the increasing prevalence of crystal methamphetamine use in Vancouver, Canada, from 2006–2017: A gender‐based analysis	31
Understanding concurrent stimulant use among people on methadone: A qualitative study	30
Overdose deaths and the COVID‐19 pandemic in British Columbia, Canada	30
Use of a novel prescribing approach for the treatment of opioid use disorder: Buprenorphine/naloxone micro‐dosing – a case series	30
Why do women consume alcohol during pregnancy or while breastfeeding?	28
Implications of addiction diagnosis and addiction beliefs for public stigma: A cross‐national experimental study	25
What is the best indicator of the harmful use of alcohol? A narrative review	25

Alcohol consumption in Iran: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of the literature	24
Opioid agonist treatment and patient outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic in south east Sydney, Australia	24
Advancing the science on cannabis concentrates and behavioural health	24
Methamphetamine use, health and criminal justice system outcomes: A systematic review	23
Associations between ayahuasca consumption in naturalistic settings and current alcohol and drug use: Results of a large international cross‐sectional survey	23
Construction workers' alcohol use, knowledge, perceptions of risk and workplace norms	21
COVID‐19 vaccination among people who inject drugs: Leaving no one behind	20
Young‐adult compared to adolescent onset of regular cannabis use: A 20‐year prospective cohort study of later consequences	19
Managing opioid withdrawal precipitated by buprenorphine with buprenorphine	19
The influence of child maltreatment on substance or alcohol use in 30‐year‐old adults: A birth cohort study	19
The role of alcohol use in the aetiology and progression of liver disease: A narrative review and a quantification	18
Trends in medical cannabis licensure, Israel, 2013–2018	18
How often are outcomes other than change in substance use measured? A systematic review of outcome measures in contemporary randomised controlled trials	18
Alcohol consumption in India: A rising burden and a fractured response	17
Normalisation of non‐drinking? 15–16‐year‐olds' accounts of refraining from alcohol	17
The alcohol advertising ban in Norway: Effects on recorded alcohol sales	17
Alcohol‐related male mortality in the context of changing alcohol control policy in Lithuania 2000–2017	17
Shared decision‐making among people with problematic alcohol/other drug use and co‐occurring mental health conditions: A systematic review	17
Investigating the need for alcohol harm reduction and managed alcohol programs for people experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorders in Scotland	16
Alcohol marketing and social media: A challenge for public health control	16
Challenges with buprenorphine inductions in the context of the fentanyl overdose crisis: A case series	16
Detection of synthetic cannabinoid adulteration in the unregulated drug supply in three Canadian settings	16
Are changes in binge drinking among European adolescents driven by changes in computer gaming?	16
Is the relapse concept in studies of substance use disorders a ‘one size fits all’ concept? A systematic review of relapse operationalisations	16
COVID‐19 vaccine acceptability among people in Australia who inject drugs: Implications for vaccine rollout	15
Decline in adolescent drinking: Some possible explanations	15
Getting high for likes: Exploring cannabis‐related content on TikTok	15
Trends in methamphetamine use, markets and harms in Australia, 2003–2019	15
Predictors of alcohol use during pregnancy in Australian women	15
Beyond ‘drinking occasions’: Examining complex changes in drinking practices during COVID‐19	15
The impact of nationwide alcohol ban during the COVID‐19 lockdown on alcohol use‐related internet searches and behaviour in India: An infodemiology study	15
Trauma trends during COVID‐19 alcohol prohibition at a South African regional hospital	15
Why did New Zealand's referendum to legalise recreational cannabis fail?	14
Assessing the validity of the Australian Treatment Outcomes Profile for telephone administration in drug health treatment populations	14
Trends in cocaine use, markets and harms in Australia, 2003–2019	14
Opioid‐related overdose deaths among African Americans: Implications for research, practice and policy	14
Dialectical behaviour therapy skills training for individuals with substance use disorder: A systematic review	14
Exploiting motherhood: Do mummy drinking sites offer real support or are they mainly alcohol marketing?	13
The who and what of women's drinking: Examining risky drinking and associated socio‐demographic factors among women aged 40–65 years in Australia	13
Zero‐alcohol beverages: Harm‐minimisation tool or gateway drink?	13
Facing the option for the legalisation of cannabis use and supply in New Zealand: An overview of relevant evidence, concepts and considerations	13
Lockdown and licensed premises: COVID‐19 lessons for alcohol policy	13
Trends in adolescent alcohol and other risky health‐ and school‐related behaviours and outcomes in Australia	13
A long‐brewing crisis: The historical antecedents of major alcohol policy change in Ireland	12
The impact of liquor legislation changes on police‐recorded serious assault in Queensland, Australia	12
Combining transdermal and breath alcohol assessments, real‐time drink logs and retrospective self‐reports to measure alcohol consumption and intoxication across a multi‐day music festival	12
A prospective cohort of people who use methamphetamine in Melbourne and non‐metropolitan Victoria, Australia: Baseline characteristics and correlates of methamphetamine dependence	12
Non‐alcoholic beer in the European Union and UK: Availability and apparent consumption	12
Trends in treatment episodes for methamphetamine smoking and injecting in Australia, 2003–2019	11
A qualitative meta‐synthesis of pregnant women's experiences of accessing and receiving treatment for opioid use disorder	11

Substance use prevalence rates among migrant and native adolescents in Europe: A systematic review	11
Children with problem drinking parents in Sweden: Prevalence and risk of adverse consequences in a national cohort born in 2001	11
The efficacy of health warnings and package branding on perceptions of cannabis products among youth and young adults	11
Health service utilisation and access for people who inject drugs during COVID‐19	11
COVID‐19 vaccination coverage and vaccine hesitancy among people with opioid use disorder in Barcelona, Spain	11
Childhood social environmental and behavioural predictors of early adolescent onset cannabis use	11
Reducing loneliness among people with substance use disorders: Feasibility of ‘Groups for Belonging’	11
Patterns of smoking and injecting methamphetamine and their association with health and social outcomes	10
‘Very demanding. Extremely rewarding’: Exploring the co‐occurrence of burnout and engagement in alcohol and other drug workers	10
The prospective impact of 10‐day patron bans on crime in Queensland's largest entertainment precincts	10
Alcohol controls in the aftermath of the COVID‐19 pandemic in India: Commentary on Stockwell et al.	10
Prevalence and correlates of cannabis use disorder among Australians using cannabis products to treat a medical condition	10
Doing violence to evidence on violence? How the alcohol industry created doubt in order to influence policy	10
Transitions in smoking and nicotine use from 2016 to 2017 among a UK cohort of adult smokers and ex‐smokers	10
Mapping the research addressing prescription drug monitoring programs: A scoping review	10
Alcohol interventions for LGBTQ+ adults: A systematic review	10
A systematic review of reasons for abstinence from alcohol reported by lifelong abstainers, current abstainers and former problem‐drinkers	10
Fear of missing out and binge‐drinking among adolescents	10
Routine outcome measurement in specialist non‐government alcohol and other drug treatment services: Establishing effectiveness indicators for the NADAbase	9
The potential effects of autonomous vehicles on alcohol consumption and drink‐driving behaviours	9
Perceptions of loneliness among people accessing treatment for substance use disorders	9
Recruitment, risks, rewards and regrets: Senior researcher reflections on working with alcohol industry social aspects organisations	9
Alcohol minimum unit pricing and people experiencing homelessness: A qualitative study of stakeholders' perspectives and experiences	9
Comprehensive analysis of alcohol policies in the Latin America and the Caribbean	9
Use of cannabis and opioids for chronic pain by older adults: Distinguishing clinical and contextual influences	9
Impact of body mass and alcohol consumption on all‐cause and liver mortality in 240 000 adults in the United States	9
Correlates of e‐cigarette use before and after comprehensive regulatory changes and e‐liquid flavour ban among general population	9
Less adolescent alcohol and cannabis use: More deviant user groups?	9
Survey methods and characteristics of a sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non‐Indigenous people who have recently used methamphetamine: the NIMAC survey	9
Characterising communities impacted by the 2015 Indiana HIV outbreak: A big data analysis of social media messages associated with HIV and substance abuse	9
Changes in health harms due to cannabis following legalisation of non‐medical cannabis in Canada in context of cannabis commercialisation: A scoping review	9
Smokeless tobacco policy in Bangladesh: A stakeholder study of compatibility with the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	9
Prevalence and sociodemographic factors of risky drinking in Australian older adults	8
Characterisation of presentations to a community‐based specialist addiction neuropsychology service: Cognitive profiles, diagnoses and comorbidities	8
Describing the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on alcohol‐induced blackout tweets	8
Using passive surveillance technology for overdose prevention: Key ethical and implementation issues	8
Has beverage composition of alcohol consumption in Sweden changed over time? An age‐period‐cohort analysis	8
Potentially inappropriate benzodiazepine use in Australian adults: A population‐based study (2014–2017)	8
Pharmacological treatment for methamphetamine withdrawal: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomised controlled trials	8
Finding stability amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: The impact of emergency temporary housing for people who use drugs	8
Estimating population‐level of alcohol, tobacco and morphine use in a small Russian region using wastewater‐based epidemiology	8
Trends in the psychosocial characteristics of 11–15‐year‐olds who still drink, smoke, take drugs and engage in poly‐substance use in England	8
The impact of changes to alcohol policy on patron drinking behaviours in Queensland	8
The elusiveness of representativeness in general population surveys for alcohol: Commentary on Rehm et al.	8
Increased alcohol‐specific mortality in Germany during COVID‐19: State‐level trends from 2010 to 2020	8
‘Extreme personal stress’ and ‘a lot of pain’: Exploring the physical, mental and social contexts of extramedical pharmaceutical opioid use in Australian paramedic case descriptions	8
Quantifying nicotine and alcohol consumption in New Zealand using wastewater‐based epidemiology timed to coincide with census	8
Trends in opioid initiation among people who use opioids in three US cities	8
Awareness of fentanyl exposure and the associated overdose risks among people who inject drugs in a Canadian setting	8
Interrupted time series analysis of Canadian legal cannabis sales during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Patients' beliefs towards contingency management: Target behaviours, incentives and the remote application of these interventions	8
Clinical and demographic characteristics of people who smoke versus inject crystalline methamphetamine in Australia: Findings from a pharmacotherapy trial	8
The print media's construction of the ‘drug problem’ in Victorian newspapers: The case of North Richmond Community Health's medically supervised injecting room	7
Effects of stomach content on the breath alcohol concentration‐transdermal alcohol concentration relationship	7
Summarising the impacts of the Queensland Alcohol‐related violence and Night‐Time Economy (QUANTEM) project	7
Validation of the Australian Treatment Outcomes Profile for use in clients with cannabis dependence	7
Access to legal cannabis market in Canada over the four years following non‐medical cannabis legalisation	7
Monitoring the sentiment of cannabis‐related tweets in the lead up to New Zealand's cannabis referendum	7
Change in alcohol outcome expectancies from childhood to emerging adulthood: A meta‐analysis of longitudinal studies	7
‘When I open it, I have to drink it all’: Push and pull factors shaping domestic alcohol consumption during the COVID‐19 pandemic UK Spring 2020 lockdown	7
Facilitators and barriers to integrating physical health care during treatment for substance use: A socio‐ecological analysis	7
Contrasts in alcohol‐related mortality in Czechia and Lithuania: Analysis of time trends and educational differences	7
Night‐time is the right time? Late‐night drinking and assaults in Finnish public and private settings	7
The impact of late‐night alcohol restrictions on ambulance call‐outs in entertainment precincts	7
A comparison of global and egocentric network approaches for assessing peer alcohol use among college students in the United States	7
The Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Findings from a review of provincial and territorial alcohol policies	7
Alcohol labelling rules in free trade agreements: Advancing the industry's interests at the expense of the public's health	7
Smoke Gets in the Eye: A systematic review of case reports of ocular complications of crack cocaine use	7
Detecting illicit opioid content on Twitter	7
Alcohol and cocaine use prior to suspected suicide: Insights from toxicology	7
The perceived social rejection of sexual minorities: Substance use and unprotected sexual intercourse	7
A multi‐methods yarn about SMART Recovery: First insights from Australian Aboriginal facilitators and group members	7
Could a drug‐checking service increase intention to use ecstasy at a festival?	7
Sydney's ‘last drinks’ laws: A content analysis of news media coverage of views and arguments about a preventive health policy	7
The socio‐environmental context of simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use among young adults: Examining day‐level associations	7
Self‐managing illicit stimulant use: A qualitative study with patients receiving injectable opioid agonist treatment	7
Using administrative health data to estimate prevalence and mortality rates of alcohol and other substance‐related disorders for surveillance purposes	7
Patterns of drinking in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as self‐reported on the Grog Survey App: A representative urban and remote sample	7
The impact of Queensland's Tackling Alcohol‐Fuelled Violence Policy on nightlife and business trade	7
Is disinvestment from alcohol and drug treatment services associated with treatment access, completions and related harm? An analysis of English expenditure and outcomes data	7

A clinical research priority setting study for issues related to the use of methamphetamine and emerging drugs of concern in Australia	7
Harmful drinking occurs in private homes in some high‐ and middle‐income alcohol markets: Data from the International Alcohol Control Study	7
Smoking behaviours and other substance use among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous Australian secondary students, 2017	7
Feasibility and reliability of continuously monitoring alcohol use among female adolescents and young adults	7
Declining youth drinking: A matter of faith?	7
COVID‐19 and alcohol in Mexico: A serious health crisis, strong actions on alcohol in response—Commentary on Stockwell et al.	6
Heterogeneity in trends of alcohol use around the world: Do policies make a difference?	6
‘My mind pretty much went to mush’: A qualitative exploration of trenbolone in the performance and image enhancing drug community	6
The role of cannabis in pain management among people living with HIV who use drugs: A qualitative study	6
Cross‐sectional survey of a convenience sample of Australians who use alcohol home delivery services	6
Exploring the medical cannabis prescribing behaviours of New Zealand physicians	6
Severe harm from others' drinking: A population‐based study on sex differences and the role of one's own drinking habits	6
Decline in alcohol consumption in Russia: Collectivity or polarisation?	6
Are the well‐off youth in Sweden more likely to use cannabis?	6
Prevalence and correlates of alcohol dependence in an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representative sample: Using the Grog Survey App	6
Impact of minimum unit pricing on shifting purchases from higher to lower strength beers in Scotland: Controlled interrupted time series analyses, 2015–2020	6
How should nicotine vaping be regulated in Australia?	6
The value of identification scanner technology in monitoring and detecting banned patrons in entertainment precincts	6
Medical cannabis and cognitive performance in middle to old adults treated for chronic pain	6
A scoping review of mHealth technologies for opioid overdose prevention, detection and response	6
Effects of self‐control, drug‐use peers and family attachment on drug use among Chinese users: A gender‐specific analysis	6
‘Super googs on a Zoom, are you kidding me?’: The pleasures and constraints of digitally‐mediated alcohol and other drug consumption	6
Queensland Alcohol‐related violence and Night‐time Economy Monitoring (QUANTEM): Rationale and overview	6
The longitudinal relationship between cannabis use and hypertension	6
Polysubstance use classes and health outcomes among women attending specialist substance use treatment services	6
Kamini, a little recognised source of illicit opioid: A case series of 12 patients	6
Associations between trust and drinking among adolescents	6
Examining the cost and impact of dosing fees among clients in opioid agonist treatment: Results from a cross‐sectional survey of Australian treatment clients	6
Costing alcohol‐related assault in the night‐time economy from a societal perspective: The case of Central Sydney	6
Why stigma matters in addressing alcohol harm	6
New frontiers in alcohol and gender: The role of health promotion policy and practice in Australia	6
Second, third, fourth COVID‐19 waves and the ‘pancession’: We need studies that account for the complexities of how the pandemic is affecting alcohol consumption in Australia	6
The effectiveness of technology‐based interventions for smoking cessation: An umbrella review and quality assessment of systematic reviews	6
The effect of public opinion and politics on attitudes towards pill testing: Results from the 2019 Australian Election Study	5
Substance use disorder and the baby boom generation: Does Berlin outpatient addiction care face a sustained change?	5
Barriers to help‐seeking among music festival attendees in New South Wales, Australia	5
Prevalence and factors associated with chronic venous insufficiency, leg ulceration and deep‐vein thrombosis among people who inject drugs in London, UK	5
Case series on treatment of dependence to Kamini Vidrawan Ras with opioid substitution therapy	5
Social recovery in substance use disorder: A metasynthesis of qualitative studies	5
An examination of the extent to which drinking motives and problem alcohol consumption vary as a function of deprivation, gender and age	5
COVID‐19 and alcohol use	5
Ready2Change: Preliminary effectiveness of a telephone‐delivered intervention program for alcohol, methamphetamine and cannabis use problems	5
A matter of perspective: The convergent and incremental validity of informant‐reported drinking motives	5
Alcohol industry arguments for putting profit before health in the midst of a pandemic: The Western Australian experience	5
Predictors of and reasons for early discharge from inpatient withdrawal management settings: A scoping review	5
Industry submissions on alcohol in the context of Australia's trade and investment agreements: A content and thematic analysis of publicly available documents	5
A parallel test of the SCRAM‐CAM transdermal monitors ensuring reliability	5
Quality of life as a predictor of time to heroin relapse among male residents following release from compulsory rehabilitation centres in Vietnam	5
Future of surveys in the alcohol field	5
Correlates of higher‐risk drug‐related behaviours at music festivals in New South Wales, Australia	5
Using social media comments to reduce alcohol purchase intentions: An online experiment	5
Do gender differences in the relationship between living with children and alcohol consumption vary by societal gender inequality?	5
Parent and child co‐resident status among an Australian community‐based sample of methamphetamine smokers	5
Use as directed: do standard drink labels on alcohol containers help consumers drink (ir)responsibly? Real‐world evidence from a quasi‐experimental study in Yukon, Canada	5
Acute injection‐related infections requiring hospitalisation among people who inject drugs: Clinical features, microbiology and management	5
A critical analysis of ‘Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: Systematic review of global evidence’	5
Coming of age: 21 years of providing opioid substitution treatment within an Aboriginal community‐controlled primary health service	5
Online SMART Recovery mutual support groups: Characteristics and experience of adults seeking treatment for methamphetamine compared to those seeking treatment for other addictive behaviour	5
Impact of alcohol on mortality in Eastern Europe: Trends and policy responses	5
Factors associated with hepatitis C and HIV testing uptake among men who inject image and performance enhancing drugs	5
Home drinking during and post‐COVID‐19: Why the silence on domestic violence?	5
How do you solve a problem like youth vaping?	4
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, mental health and treatment need in the United States during COVID‐19	4
Patterns of methamphetamine production among an international sample of methamphetamine ‘cooks’	4
Determining clinical cutoff scores for the Australian Treatment Outcomes Profile psychological health, physical health and quality of life questions	4
The alcohol advertising ban in Norway: A response to Nelson's comments	4
Association between state‐level alcohol availability and taxation policies on the prevalence of alcohol‐related harms to persons other than the drinker in the USA, 2000–2015	4
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Risk of non‐fatal overdose and polysubstance use in a longitudinal study with people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico	4
The future of alcohol surveys: Between the devil and the deep blue sea	4
Bidirectional relationships in the development of internalising symptoms and alcohol use in adolescence	4
Ambulance attendance for substance and/or alcohol use in a pandemic: Interrupted time series analysis of incidents	4
The impact of the Queensland Government's Tackling Alcohol‐Fuelled Violence Policy on live music performances in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia	4
Illicit drug use among lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, trans and gender diverse, queer and asexual young people in Australia: Intersections and associated outcomes	4
Concordance between self‐reported and current hepatitis C virus infection status in a sample of people who inject drugs in Sydney and Canberra, Australia	4
Uptake of slow‐release oral morphine as opioid agonist treatment among hospitalised patients with opioid use disorder	4
A trial of Criminal Infringement Notices as an alternative to criminal penalties for illicit drug offences in New South Wales, Australia: Estimated savings	4
The development and implementation of a rapid‐access long‐acting injectable buprenorphine clinic in metropolitan Melbourne during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
The role of alcohol packaging as a health communications tool: An online cross‐sectional survey and experiment with young adult drinkers in the United Kingdom	4
Perceived parental alcohol problems and later dropout and grade point average in high school: A register‐based follow‐up study	4
Opioid overdose risk during and after drug treatment for heroin dependence: An incidence density case–control study nested in the VEdeTTE cohort	4
Risky alcohol consumption prior to incarceration: A cross‐sectional study of drinking patterns among Australian prison entrants	4
What do general practitioners want from specialist alcohol and other drug services? A qualitative study of New South Wales metropolitan general practitioners	4
Industry views about the Banned Drinker Register in the Northern Territory: Early lessons from a qualitative evaluation	4
Introducing alcohol as a drug in medicine reviews with pharmacists: Findings from a co‐design workshop with patients	4
Content and sentiment analysis of gabapentinoid‐related tweets: An infodemiology study	4
A critical scoping review about the impact of music in the lives of young adults who use drugs	4
Assessing the impact of Queensland's late‐night alcohol restrictions using health system data	4
Alcohol‐attributed disease burden in four Nordic countries between 2000 and 2017: Are the gender gaps narrowing? A comparison using the Global Burden of Disease, Injury and Risk Factor 2017 study	4
Impact of smoking bans and other smoking cessation interventions in prisons, mental health and substance use treatment settings: A systematic review of the evidence	4
Perceived unmet substance use and mental health care needs of acute care patients who use drugs: A cross‐sectional analysis using the Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations	4
COVID‐19 vaccine acceptability among people in Australia who inject drugs: Update from the 2021 Illicit Drug Reporting System interviews	4
Alcohol use and injury risk in Thailand: A case‐crossover emergency department study	4
Home drinking practices among middle‐class adults in midlife during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Material ubiquity, automatic routines and embodied states	4
Developmental trajectories of illicit drug use, prescription drug misuse and cannabis practices among young adult cannabis users in Los Angeles	4