OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Drugs-Education Prevention and Policy is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Assessing public health messaging about cannabis edibles: perspectives from canadian young adults	24
Nonmedical prescription drug use among female adolescents: the relative influence of maternal factors, social norms, and perceptions of risk and availability	19
A continuum model of alcohol use and problems can advance public health goals without undermining treatment agendas. Reply to commentaries	16
Public and semi-public injection drug use in Thunder Bay, Ontario: the case for supervised injection services	15
Cannabis users andHomo Sovieticus. Stigma, culture, and delegitimization in Riga, Latvia	15
Tobacco, e-cigarette and alcohol content in popular UK soap operas: a content analysis to explore changes in social norms and scene location	15
The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents	14
Is start time a risk factor for amounts consumed on a given day if drinking duration is taken into account? An event-level study	14
Prevalence and associated factors of binge drinking among high school students in Acapulco, Mexico: a cross-sectional study	13
Exploring hidden risks and empowerment in women’s acquisition of medicinal cannabis from illegal markets: a qualitative study	13
Just have this come from their prescription pad: the medicalization of safer supply from the perspectives of health planners in BC, Canada	12
“They’re doing it anyway, let’s have a conversation about it”: exploring student and stakeholder attitudes towards drug education programmes for university students	12
Diversion or death? The moral framework shaping bifurcated punishments for drug offences in Indonesia	11
Impact of participation in a peer-led overdose program for people who use drugs	10
Accurate yet problematic: the divided sentiments regarding brain-based addiction by professionals in the Finnish service system	9
Media constructions of an illegal drug: the link between cannabis and organized crime in Swedish newspapers	9
Police officer perceptions towards drug liberalization policies in the context of an overdose crisis in British Columbia, Canada	9
User perspectives on outreach opioid substitution treatment among street-entrenched people who use drugs in Denmark	9
Harnessing the global expertise in drug use and drug prevention in physical activity settings: results from the Anabolic Steroid Prevention Survey	9
Cultural stigmatization and police corruption: cannabis, gender, and legalization in Mexico	8
Professional education to reduce provider stigma toward harm reduction and pharmacotherapy	8
Police officers’ perceptions of their role at overdose events: a qualitative study	8
Rapid literature review on the impact of health messaging and product information on alcohol labelling	8
Music festival attendees’ transport mode and beliefs about alcohol and illicit drug use before driving in Victoria, Australia	7
“Like the first time, all over again”: sex, relationships, and risk for relapse to substance use after release from prison	7

“Hooked on the needle”: Exploring the paradoxical attractions towards injecting drug use	7
Self-detoxification, embodiment and masculinity: a qualitative analysis of dependent heroin users’ experiences of coming off drugs in prison	7
Needle exchange practitioners accounts of delivering harm reduction advice for chemsex: implications for policy and practice	6
Associations between mental illness and non-medical use of prescription opioids among a sample of people who use drugs in Australia and New Zealand	6
Exploring the process of care for people who inject drugs in hospital settings	6
‘I crave not to feel uncomfortable’ – investigating craving for opioids and cannabis among individuals with chronic pain	6
Magazines as contradictory spaces for alcohol messaging: a mixed method content and thematic analysis of UK women’s magazine representations of alcohol and its consumption	6
A multi-country analysis of informal caregiving due to others’ drinking	6
Critically explaining British policy responses to novel psychoactive substances using the policy constellations framework	6
Reinforcing the abstinence ideal: criminal justice developments	6
Drug market risk environment and navigational strategies of street-level dealers in Nigeria	5
Exploring women’s intentions to seek medicinal cannabis prescriptions in New Zealand using the theory of planned behaviour	5
‘We are the first responders’: overdose response experiences and perspectives among peers in British Columbia	5
“I knew it was different there”: a qualitative study of the motivations and risks of drug policy migrants going to Denmark from Sweden	5
Mechanisms and mediators of addiction recovery	5
The influence of individual and cultural factors on perceptions of alcohol control strategies among university students in Europe	5
Comparative analysis of policy responses to residential methamphetamine contamination by two public housing authorities in the United States and New Zealand	4
Expected and actual responses to minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol of people drinking at harmful levels in Scotland	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
Strategies to prevent and reduce gambling harm in Australian women	4
Analyzing agency and identity navigation in addiction stories by drawing on actor-network theory and narrative positioning analysis	4
Effects on secondary outcomes of the Brazilian version of the European unplugged drug use prevention program: drug knowledge, intention predictors, and life skill competencies	4
Recovering assemblages: unfolding sociomaterial relations of drug use and recovery	4
‘I cannot stop taking weed cos it makes me survive’: cannabis use, criminal sanctions and users’ experiences in Nigeria	4
What can we know about legal minors who inject drugs? Exploring register data in three high-income countries	4
Race/ethnicity and contexts: associations of racial/ethnic discrimination with underage youth’s alcohol use and drinking contexts	4
Correction	3
Drug use and unsafe injection among adults who live in prisons in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Reconfiguring Drinking Cultures, Gender, and Transgressive Selves	3
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	3
Personal strengths and resources that people use in their recovery from persistent substance use disorder	3
Alcohol industry discourses about LGBTQ+ communities: genuine allies or partners for profit?	3
Exploring public preferences for alcohol risk communication	3
Accessing drug treatment programs in Atlantic Canada: the experiences of people who use substances	3
The experiences of family members attending an online addiction education program: a qualitative study	3
‘It maybe doesn’t seem much, but to me it’s my kingdom’: staff and client experiences of Housing First in Scotland	3
Perspectives of community leaders/members on factors hindering alcohol regulation in Nigeria	3
Inadequate needle and syringe coverage among people who inject psychoactive drugs across England and Wales	3
Exploring men’s alcohol consumption in the context of becoming a father: a scoping review	3
Liberal moralities and drug policy reform	3
Don’t make a hash of it! A thematic review of the literature relating to outcomes of cannabis regulatory change	3
A longitudinal study of behavioural outcomes following a visit to the Boom Festival 2018 drug checking service: individual and group level results	3
Drug policy	3
Law, drugs and the politics of childhood: from protection to punishment	3
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on tobacco and nicotine use among young adults identified as sexual and gender minorities: a mixed methods approach	3
Challenges recruiting men with a desire to cease anabolic-androgenic steroid use to a pilot involving hormone therapy intervention	3
Qualitative study of patients’ decisions to initiate injectable depot buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: the role of information and other factors	3
User perceptions of long-term costs and benefits of MDMA use: findings from a large online sample	3
Characteristics of affected family members seeking treatment in their own right: a secondary analysis of existing Irish health data for 2010–2020	3