OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Drugs-Education Prevention and Policy is 1. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the dark web: navigating the risks of cannabis supply over the surface web	32
‘The gear could be cut with fentanyl which is starting to happen more in Australia’: exploring overdose survivors’ perspectives on toxic supply and safe consumption	18
“Something wasn’t right”—parents of children with drug problems looking back at how the troubles first began	18
Prevalence and associated factors of binge drinking among high school students in Acapulco, Mexico: a cross-sectional study	16
Tobacco, e-cigarette and alcohol content in popular UK soap operas: a content analysis to explore changes in social norms and scene location	13
Anti-Doping research: What is left to do?	12
Correction	11
Comment to Koning et al.: implementation of the Icelandic prevention model: a critical discussion of its worldwide transferability	10
A gender-focused multilevel analysis of how country, regional and individual level factors relate to harm from others’ drinking	10
“They’re doing it anyway, let’s have a conversation about it”: exploring student and stakeholder attitudes towards drug education programmes for university students	9
An unknown invisible intrusion. Impact of an adult family member’s problematic substance use on family life: a meta-ethnography	9
The attitude of attorneys toward substance users and referral of offenders for drug treatment in southern Nigeria	9
“I would never go to the doctor and speak about steroids”: Anabolic androgenic steroids, stigma and harm	9
‘Saving the youth’: Children and young people as moral subjects in the Philippines’ punitive drug regime	9
Contraceptive choice and power amongst women receiving opioid replacement therapy: qualitative study	8
Factors associated with intimate partner violence and barriers to reporting it, among female who use drugs in Malaysia	8
‘It’s not 9 to 5 recovery’: the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery	8
Exploring cultural dynamics of Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) women in addiction recovery: a comparison of three women from different ethnic backgrounds	8
Diversifying and enriching theoretical approaches to the interdisciplinary study of alcohol and other drug use	8
The impact of a continuum model of alcohol problems on clinical practice: a double-edged sword? Commentary on Morris et al. ‘Should we promote alcohol problems as a continuum? Implications for policy	8
The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents	8
The shift from face-to-face to remote care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative survey analysis of users of UK drug and alcohol services	8
Recovering assemblages: unfolding sociomaterial relations of drug use and recovery	8
Race/ethnicity and contexts: associations of racial/ethnic discrimination with underage youth’s alcohol use and drinking contexts	7
Assessing public health messaging about cannabis edibles: perspectives from canadian young adults	6

The social organization of structural vulnerability among people who are homeless and use drugs: an institutional ethnography	6
Exploring digital news, advocacy networks and social media campaigns ‘for’ and ‘against’ cannabis legalisation during New Zealand’s cannabis legalisation referendum	6
‘It’s like a safety haven’: considerations for the implementation of managed alcohol programs in Scotland	6
A continuum model of alcohol use and problems can advance public health goals without undermining treatment agendas. Reply to commentaries	6
Recovery and identity: a five-year follow-up of persons treated in 12-step-related programs	6
Just have this come from their prescription pad: the medicalization of safer supply from the perspectives of health planners in BC, Canada	5
Public and semi-public injection drug use in Thunder Bay, Ontario: the case for supervised injection services	5
Morality boundary work in the making of the needle and syringe exchange program in Stockholm	5
How injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) care could be improved? service providers and stakeholders’ perspectives	5
High time for the development of gendered interventions to prevent young people driving after cannabis use: evidence from Canada’s National Cannabis Survey	5
Patterns of opioid misuse initiation among African-Americans	5
Effects on secondary outcomes of the Brazilian version of the European unplugged drug use prevention program: drug knowledge, intention predictors, and life skill competencies	5
“Emerging anabolic androgenic steroid markets; the prominence of social media”	4
Women in transgression: why we still need to move beyond traditional gender roles in policy surrounding women who undertake substance use and sex work	4
Nonmedical prescription drug use among female adolescents: the relative influence of maternal factors, social norms, and perceptions of risk and availability	4
HIV knowledge and risk behaviors among people who inject heroin in Colombia	4
Values in drug policy documents: applying Schwartz’s values theory to the report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’ (NSW)	4
Fitness professionals’ perceptions of acceptability and usability of anti-doping education tools for recreational sports	4
Bereaved siblings’ stories of drug-related death	4
‘Sustaining masculinity’: a scoping review of anabolic androgenic steroid use by older males	3
Perspectives of community leaders/members on factors hindering alcohol regulation in Nigeria	3
Elaborating the association of age at first drink with risky drinking: results from a cross-sectional survey	3
Law, drugs and the politics of childhood: from protection to punishment	3
‘It maybe doesn’t seem much, but to me it’s my kingdom’: staff and client experiences of Housing First in Scotland	3
Is start time a risk factor for amounts consumed on a given day if drinking duration is taken into account? An event-level study	3
Sexual agency as situational: moving beyond neoliberal understandings of sexual agency when investigating young people’s alcohol intoxicated sexual encounters	3
Cannabis users andHomo Sovieticus. Stigma, culture, and delegitimization in Riga, Latvia	3
Barriers and facilitators to implementing a first managed alcohol program in Montreal, Canada	3
Anabolic androgenic steroid use population size estimation: a first stage study utilising a Delphi exercise	3
Police officer perceptions towards drug liberalization policies in the context of an overdose crisis in British Columbia, Canada	3
The role of social mechanisms of change in women’s addiction recovery trajectories	3
Adapting to changing risk environments: examining overdose risk and socio-spatial patterns of unstably housed people who use drugs during converging public health crises	3
Reviewing the anti-doping policy of India: missing the wood for the trees?	3
“Now I like to know what I smoke”—differentiated cannabis normalization in Polish online discussions	3
Exploring essential components of addiction recovery: a qualitative study across assisted and unassisted recovery pathways	3
Correction	3
Drug policy	3
Cannabis education resources for parents: an environmental scan and critical content analysis in the context of legalization	3
The hunt for a job: narrating the process of gaining employment for people in recovery from lives dominated by drug use	3
A psilocybin haven: the use of comparison to legitimate transgression at a psychedelic retreat	3
Harm reduction as “moral improvisation”: the role of frontline drug workers within Hong Kong’s abstinence-based drug policy	3
Sexualized drug use, risky sexual behaviors, and prevention strategies among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men	3
Whitewashing psychedelics: racial equity in the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted mental health research and treatment	3
Reconfiguring Drinking Cultures, Gender, and Transgressive Selves	3
Thinking and drinking: associations between momentary thoughts and alcohol consumption during COVID-19 lockdown	2
If cannabis use is increasing among workers what are the implications for policy? A secondary analysis of a nationally representative Australian dataset	2
Media constructions of an illegal drug: the link between cannabis and organized crime in Swedish newspapers	2
Review of intoxication: an ethnography of effervescent revelry Review of intoxication: an ethnography of effervescent revelry , by Tutenges Sébastien, Rutgers University	2
Exploring patterns of polysubstance use among young adults: a latent profile analysis	2
Qualitative study of patients’ decisions to initiate injectable depot buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: the role of information and other factors	2

User perspectives on outreach opioid substitution treatment among street-entrenched people who use drugs in Denmark	2
Neither laissez-faire nor prohibition:the khat regulation policy preferences of people who chew khat and local social service providers in Ethiopia	2
Accessing drug treatment programs in Atlantic Canada: the experiences of people who use substances	2
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on tobacco and nicotine use among young adults identified as sexual and gender minorities: a mixed methods approach	2
A longitudinal study of behavioural outcomes following a visit to the Boom Festival 2018 drug checking service: individual and group level results	2
The experiences of family members attending an online addiction education program: a qualitative study	2
Alcohol use in adolescence: a qualitative longitudinal study of mediators for drinking and non-drinking	2
Implementing drug checking as an illicit drug market intervention within the supply chain in a Canadian setting	2
Accurate yet problematic: the divided sentiments regarding brain-based addiction by professionals in the Finnish service system	2
Diversion or death? The moral framework shaping bifurcated punishments for drug offences in Indonesia	2
Substance use, end-of-life care and multiple deprivation: practice and research, Substance use, end-of-life care and multiple deprivation: practice and research , by Gar	2
Cannabis harm reduction: perspectives of women who use and allied social and health-care providers	2
The Psychedelic Social Club: a regulatory concept for people who use psychedelics?	2
Needle exchange practitioners accounts of delivering harm reduction advice for chemsex: implications for policy and practice	2
Toward a positive psychology of psychoactive drug use	2
Purposeful play: exploring a bar-based, anti-tobacco intervention for young adults	2
Implementation of alcohol minimum unit pricing (MUP): a qualitative study with small retailers	2
Impact of participation in a peer-led overdose program for people who use drugs	2
Harnessing the global expertise in drug use and drug prevention in physical activity settings: results from the Anabolic Steroid Prevention Survey	2
Professional education to reduce provider stigma toward harm reduction and pharmacotherapy	2
Research handbook on international drug policy	2
Including the multiply excluded: a mixed methods study exploring intragroup stigma towards people who use synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists	2
Correction	2
Performing solidarity? A scoping review of alcohol marketing to sexual and gender minorities	2
“I straight up criminalized myself on messenger”: law enforcement risk management among people who buy and sell drugs on social media	2
Connected and consuming: applying a deep learning algorithm to quantify alcoholic beverage prevalence in user-generated instagram images	2
‘ We were all stuffed ’: did the Australian COVID-19 lockdowns exacerbate role-specific stress and alcohol use among working mothers? A qualitative analysis	2
Unhealthy substance use among unaccompanied refugees in Germany	1
Associations between mental illness and non-medical use of prescription opioids among a sample of people who use drugs in Australia and New Zealand	1
Chasing a pot of gold: an analysis of emerging recovery-oriented addiction policies in Flanders (Belgium) and The Netherlands	1
Cognitive enhancing drug use amongst students in (neoliberal) higher education: a functional response	1
Personal strengths and resources that people use in their recovery from persistent substance use disorder	1
The changing cannabis culture among older Americans: high hopes for chronic pain relief	1
Mechanisms of impact of alcohol availability interventions from the perspective of 63 diverse alcohol licensing stakeholders: a qualitative interview study	1
Exploring men’s alcohol consumption in the context of becoming a father: a scoping review	1
User perceptions of long-term costs and benefits of MDMA use: findings from a large online sample	1
Cultural stigmatization and police corruption: cannabis, gender, and legalization in Mexico	1
‘I crave not to feel uncomfortable’ – investigating craving for opioids and cannabis among individuals with chronic pain	1
Correction	1
Peer navigation: a pilot study to improve recovery capital for alcohol and other drug telephone helpline callers	1
Challenges recruiting men with a desire to cease anabolic-androgenic steroid use to a pilot involving hormone therapy intervention	1
Liberal moralities and drug policy reform	1
South Asian women’s experiences of alcohol use and the role of the family	1
Effectiveness of online training for improving knowledge, attitudes, and confidence of alcohol and other drug workers in relation to co-occurring mental health conditions	1
Cannabis criminology: inequality, coercion, and illusions of reform	1
How many children live with persons with problematic drinking patterns across 19 European countries?	1
Drug use and unsafe injection among adults who live in prisons in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
“Hooked on the needle”: Exploring the paradoxical attractions towards injecting drug use	1
New converts and seasoned campaigners: the role of social identity at different stages in the addiction recovery journey	1
“Like the first time, all over again”: sex, relationships, and risk for relapse to substance use after release from prison	1
Drug use trajectories among young people with experiences of problematic tramadol use	1
Assessing alcohol-related beliefs using pictographic representations: a systematic approach to the development and validation of the revised alcohol expectancy task	1
Characteristics of affected family members seeking treatment in their own right: a secondary analysis of existing Irish health data for 2010–2020	1
Reassessing ayahuasca regulation in Brazil: strategic framing and cumulative gains	1
Narcofeminisms: Revisioning Drug Use	1
Improving the effectiveness and inclusiveness of alcohol and other drug outreach models for young people: a literature review	1
Optimizing online learning resources for substance use professionals in England: lessons from user-centered design	1
Police officers’ perceptions of their role at overdose events: a qualitative study	1
Atmospheres of craving: a relational understanding of the desire to use drugs	1
Self-detoxification, embodiment and masculinity: a qualitative analysis of dependent heroin users’ experiences of coming off drugs in prison	1
Psychoanalyst attitudes towards psychedelic-assisted therapy	1
Drinking to cope as a mediator of the relationship between stress and alcohol outcomes	1
Don’t make a hash of it! A thematic review of the literature relating to outcomes of cannabis regulatory change	1
Substance use and the Sustainable Development Goals: will development bring greater problems?	1
Being and becoming a father in the context of heavy drinking and other substance use—a qualitative evidence synthesis	1
Music festival attendees’ transport mode and beliefs about alcohol and illicit drug use before driving in Victoria, Australia	1
Rapid literature review on the impact of health messaging and product information on alcohol labelling	1
The transforming landscape of cannabis in southwest Michigan: a case study of regulations and the role of small-scale growers	1
“They are survivors”. Violence against women drug users: a qualitative analysis of the professionals’ narratives	1
Development of brief assessment packages of psychosocial constructs related to doping	1
Jump-starting the conversation about harm reduction: making sense of drug effects	1
Closing doors, opening windows – Adaptations and opportunities for harm reduction services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	1
Why and how PROERD instructors adapt the program during its delivery: an implementation research	1
Tackling hospital service burden of alcohol dependence in England: a service evaluation of alcohol care teams (ACTs) and care pathways for integrated care	1
Drug Policy Constellations: The role of power and morality in the making of drug policy in the UK	1
A qualitative investigation of women’s experiences of drug use at university and needs within university drug harm reduction services	1
Alcohol industry discourses about LGBTQ+ communities: genuine allies or partners for profit?	1
Inadequate needle and syringe coverage among people who inject psychoactive drugs across England and Wales	1