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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
People of color in North America report improvements in racial trauma and mental health symptoms following psychedelic experiences	43
Whitewashing psychedelics: racial equity in the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted mental health research and treatment	27
Professional education to reduce provider stigma toward harm reduction and pharmacotherapy	18
An unknown invisible intrusion. Impact of an adult family member’s problematic substance use on family life: a meta-ethnography	16
Are members of mutual aid groups better equipped for addiction recovery? European cross-sectional study into recovery capital, social networks, and commitment to sobriety	15
Preventing, producing, or reducing harm? Fitness doping risk and enabling environments	15
Gender and recovery pathways in the UK	14
‘I’m not managing it; it’s managing me’: a qualitative investigation of Australian parents’ and carers’ alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Photovoicing interconnected sources of recovery capital of women with a drug use history	13
Implementation of the Icelandic Prevention Model: a critical discussion of its worldwide transferability	11
Chasing a pot of gold: an analysis of emerging recovery-oriented addiction policies in Flanders (Belgium) and The Netherlands	10
Gender differences in alcohol onset and drinking frequency in adolescents: an application of the theory of planned behavior	10
Rapid literature review on the impact of health messaging and product information on alcohol labelling	10
Changing risky drinking practices in different types of social worlds: concepts and experiences	10
“Emerging anabolic androgenic steroid markets; the prominence of social media”	10
‘It’s not 9 to 5 recovery’: the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery	9
Rethinking intoxicated sexual encounters	9
Libido as a motivator for starting and restarting non-prescribed anabolic androgenic steroid use among men: a mixed-methods study	9
Parents of adult children with drug addiction dealing with shame and courtesy stigma	9
The role of social mechanisms of change in women’s addiction recovery trajectories	8
Exploring essential components of addiction recovery: a qualitative study across assisted and unassisted recovery pathways	8
Mechanisms and mediators of addiction recovery	8
Cultural stigmatization and police corruption: cannabis, gender, and legalization in Mexico	8
How injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) care could be improved? service providers and stakeholders’ perspectives	8
Why are drug-related deaths among women increasing in Scotland? A mixed-methods analysis of possible explanations	8

Implementing drug checking as an illicit drug market intervention within the supply chain in a Canadian setting	8
Beyond the dark web: navigating the risks of cannabis supply over the surface web	8
Culture matters! Changes in the global landscape of cannabis	8
Don’t make a hash of it! A thematic review of the literature relating to outcomes of cannabis regulatory change	8
Alcohol consumption and illicit drug use among young music festival attendees in Australia	7
Analyzing agency and identity navigation in addiction stories by drawing on actor-network theory and narrative positioning analysis	7
Recovery and identity: a five-year follow-up of persons treated in 12-step-related programs	7
Personal and environmental social capital predictors of relapse following departure from recovery homes	7
Strategies to prevent and reduce gambling harm in Australian women	6
Sexualized alcohol marketing, precarious work and gendered sexual risks: explorations of women beer promoters in Benin City, Nigeria	6
‘It’s like a safety haven’: considerations for the implementation of managed alcohol programs in Scotland	6
‘We are the first responders’: overdose response experiences and perspectives among peers in British Columbia	6
New converts and seasoned campaigners: the role of social identity at different stages in the addiction recovery journey	6
Should we promote alcohol problems as a continuum? Implications for policy and practice	6
Experiences of people who use drugs with naloxone administration: a qualitative study	6
Anabolic androgenic steroid use population size estimation: a first stage study utilising a Delphi exercise	6
UK alcohol marketing regulation is failing: a new approach is needed to prioritise protection for all	5
A longitudinal study of behavioural outcomes following a visit to the Boom Festival 2018 drug checking service: individual and group level results	5
Mountain or molehill? A scoping review of evidence on an opioid use problem in Israel	5
Alcohol use in adolescence: a qualitative longitudinal study of mediators for drinking and non-drinking	5
Drinking to cope as a mediator of the relationship between stress and alcohol outcomes	5
Inhaling thick smoke: cannabis subculture, community forming and socio-structural challenges in Nigeria	4
Academic, socioeconomic and interpersonal consequences of cannabis use: a narrative review	4
Improving the effectiveness and inclusiveness of alcohol and other drug outreach models for young people: a literature review	4
Prevalence of illicit drug use before imprisonment in Europe: results from a comprehensive literature review	4
Mechanisms and processes involved in women's pathways into alcohol dependence and towards recovery: a qualitative meta-synthesis	4
‘Sustaining masculinity’: a scoping review of anabolic androgenic steroid use by older males	4
Risk environments of people who use drugs during the Covid-19 pandemic – the view of social workers and health care professionals in Sweden	4
Editorial DEPP: drug experienced young people in contact with the criminal justice system. Understanding the challenges and working towards solutions	4
Cannabis education resources for parents: an environmental scan and critical content analysis in the context of legalization	4
Instrumentalising therapeutic and enhancement drugs as pharmacological technologies with politicogenic drug effects	3
Bidirectional associations between cannabis, e-cigarette, and cigarette use among Canadian youth: findings from the COMPASS Study	3
“I’m always hiding and ducking and diving”: the stigma of growing older on methadone	3
Harm reduction as an approach to ethical nursing care of people who use illicit substances: an integrative literature review of micro and meso influences	3
‘You’re in the alcohol Matrix, then you unplug from it, and you’re like ‘Wow’’’: exploring sober women’s management, negotiation and countering of alcohol marketing in the UK	3
Is it FASD? And does it matter? Swedish perspectives on diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders	3
User perceptions of long-term costs and benefits of MDMA use: findings from a large online sample	3
Connected and consuming: applying a deep learning algorithm to quantify alcoholic beverage prevalence in user-generated instagram images	3
Sexualized drug use, risky sexual behaviors, and prevention strategies among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men	3
Moral disengagement and the harms of cocaine use	3
Prevalence of alcohol’s harm to others in the context of changing alcohol control policies in Lithuania in 2015 and 2020	3
“I was already in the system from the start”: how substance-using women in the street sex trade make decisions about pregnancy	3
Traversing the fantasy of drugs: drugs, consumerism and everyday life	3
The stigma-vulnerability nexus and the framing of drug problems	3
‘The general concept is a safer use approach’: how image and performance enhancing drug coaches negotiate safety through community care	3
Qualitative study of patients’ decisions to initiate injectable depot buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: the role of information and other factors	3
‘It maybe doesn’t seem much, but to me it’s my kingdom’: staff and client experiences of Housing First in Scotland	3
Exploring digital news, advocacy networks and social media campaigns ‘for’ and ‘against’ cannabis legalisation during New Zealand’s cannabis legalisation referendum	3
‘I cannot stop taking weed cos it makes me survive’: cannabis use, criminal sanctions and users’ experiences in Nigeria	3
The perceived risk of illicit drug use and views on drug policy in the general population	3

Operationalising cultural competency in the context of substance use treatment: a qualitative analysis	3
Comparisons in the making: youth accounts of cannabis use in Swedish addiction treatment	3
“I’m not like others”: stigma navigation by people who inject drugs in Vietnam	3
Exploring men’s alcohol consumption in the context of becoming a father: a scoping review	3
Jump-starting the conversation about harm reduction: making sense of drug effects	3
The hunt for a job: narrating the process of gaining employment for people in recovery from lives dominated by drug use	3