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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
People of color in North America report improvements in racial trauma and mental health symptoms following psychedelic experiences	37
Comparing three stages of addiction recovery: long-term recovery and its relation to housing problems, crime, occupation situation, and substance use	31
Whitewashing psychedelics: racial equity in the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted mental health research and treatment	23
Frequent cannabis users demonstrate low knowledge of cannabinoid content and dosages	18
An unknown invisible intrusion. Impact of an adult family member’s problematic substance use on family life: a meta-ethnography	15
Professional education to reduce provider stigma toward harm reduction and pharmacotherapy	14
Gender and recovery pathways in the UK	13
Assessment of Norwegian physicians’ knowledge, experience and attitudes towards medical cannabis	13
Are members of mutual aid groups better equipped for addiction recovery? European cross-sectional study into recovery capital, social networks, and commitment to sobriety	12
Perspectives of people with opioid use disorder on improving addiction treatments and services	12
Breaking the cycle of survival drinking: insights from a non-residential, peer-initiated and peer-run managed alcohol program	12
‘I’m not managing it; it’s managing me’: a qualitative investigation of Australian parents’ and carers’ alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Preventing, producing, or reducing harm? Fitness doping risk and enabling environments	10
Implementation of the Icelandic Prevention Model: a critical discussion of its worldwide transferability	10
Photovoicing interconnected sources of recovery capital of women with a drug use history	10
Representation of adverse childhood experiences is associated with lower public stigma towards people who use drugs: an exploratory experimental study	9
Why are drug-related deaths among women increasing in Scotland? A mixed-methods analysis of possible explanations	9
Gender differences in alcohol onset and drinking frequency in adolescents: an application of the theory of planned behavior	9
Chasing a pot of gold: an analysis of emerging recovery-oriented addiction policies in Flanders (Belgium) and The Netherlands	9
‘It’s not 9 to 5 recovery’: the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery	9
Don’t make a hash of it! A thematic review of the literature relating to outcomes of cannabis regulatory change	8
Predictors of turnover intention in the non-government alcohol and other drug sector	8
Cultural stigmatization and police corruption: cannabis, gender, and legalization in Mexico	8
‘Discursive struggles’ between criminal justice sanctions and health interventions for people who use drugs: a qualitative exploration of diversion policy and practice in Scotland	8
Beyond the dark web: navigating the risks of cannabis supply over the surface web	8

Rethinking intoxicated sexual encounters	7
Rapid literature review on the impact of health messaging and product information on alcohol labelling	7
Personal and environmental social capital predictors of relapse following departure from recovery homes	7
Mechanisms and mediators of addiction recovery	7
How injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) care could be improved? service providers and stakeholders’ perspectives	7
Maintenance of long-term recovery from substance use: a mixed methods study of self- and treatment-changers	7
Changing risky drinking practices in different types of social worlds: concepts and experiences	7
Exploring the short-term effects of the Strengthening Families Program on Brazilian adolescents: a pre-experimental study	6
The role of social mechanisms of change in women’s addiction recovery trajectories	6
Recovery and identity: a five-year follow-up of persons treated in 12-step-related programs	6
Sexualized alcohol marketing, precarious work and gendered sexual risks: explorations of women beer promoters in Benin City, Nigeria	6
Implementing drug checking as an illicit drug market intervention within the supply chain in a Canadian setting	6
Culture matters! Changes in the global landscape of cannabis	6
Alcohol consumption and illicit drug use among young music festival attendees in Australia	6
Libido as a motivator for starting and restarting non-prescribed anabolic androgenic steroid use among men: a mixed-methods study	6
Should we promote alcohol problems as a continuum? Implications for policy and practice	5
Analyzing agency and identity navigation in addiction stories by drawing on actor-network theory and narrative positioning analysis	5
Parents of adult children with drug addiction dealing with shame and courtesy stigma	5
Alcohol use in adolescence: a qualitative longitudinal study of mediators for drinking and non-drinking	5
“Emerging anabolic androgenic steroid markets; the prominence of social media”	5
Strategies to prevent and reduce gambling harm in Australian women	5
Prevalence of illicit drug use before imprisonment in Europe: results from a comprehensive literature review	5
Experiences of people who use drugs with naloxone administration: a qualitative study	5
Anabolic androgenic steroid use population size estimation: a first stage study utilising a Delphi exercise	5
Overdose response among trained and untrained women with a history of illicit drug use: a mixed-methods examination	5
‘We are the first responders’: overdose response experiences and perspectives among peers in British Columbia	5
Modes of cannabis use among Canadian youth in the COMPASS study; using LCA to examine patterns of smoking, vaping, and eating/drinking cannabis	5
‘It’s like a safety haven’: considerations for the implementation of managed alcohol programs in Scotland	5
UK alcohol marketing regulation is failing: a new approach is needed to prioritise protection for all	4
Fitting a quart in a pint pot: a comparison of selected alcoholic drinks produced in Nigeria and the UK	4
Mechanisms and context in the San Patrignano drug recovery community, Italy: a qualitative study to inform transfer to Scotland	4
Medicalization under prohibition: the tactics and limits of medicalization in the spaces where people use illicit drugs	4
Editorial DEPP: drug experienced young people in contact with the criminal justice system. Understanding the challenges and working towards solutions	4
A longitudinal study of behavioural outcomes following a visit to the Boom Festival 2018 drug checking service: individual and group level results	4
‘I like money, I like many things’. The relationship between drugs and crime from the perspective of young people in contact with criminal justice systems	4
The engagement of young people in drug interventions in coercive contexts: findings from a cross-national European study	4
Exploring essential components of addiction recovery: a qualitative study across assisted and unassisted recovery pathways	4
Mechanisms and processes involved in women's pathways into alcohol dependence and towards recovery: a qualitative meta-synthesis	3
Exploring men’s alcohol consumption in the context of becoming a father: a scoping review	3
The hunt for a job: narrating the process of gaining employment for people in recovery from lives dominated by drug use	3
Mountain or molehill? A scoping review of evidence on an opioid use problem in Israel	3
Aftercare services to people with substance use disorders: analysis of South African policy	3
Binge drinking in 14-year-old Italian students is correlated with low or high psychological well-being: a cross-sectional study	3
Practices and policies of marijuana retail stores in the first two US states to legalize recreational marijuana sales	3
New converts and seasoned campaigners: the role of social identity at different stages in the addiction recovery journey	3
Cannabis use motivations: a study of young adults in Nigeria	3
Inhaling thick smoke: cannabis subculture, community forming and socio-structural challenges in Nigeria	3
“I was already in the system from the start”: how substance-using women in the street sex trade make decisions about pregnancy	3
Operationalising cultural competency in the context of substance use treatment: a qualitative analysis	3
“I’m not like others”: stigma navigation by people who inject drugs in Vietnam	3

Cannabis education resources for parents: an environmental scan and critical content analysis in the context of legalization	3
‘Zombies’, ‘cannibals’, and ‘super humans’: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of UK news media reporting of the cathinone psychostimulants labelled ‘monkey dust’	3
Risk environments of people who use drugs during the Covid-19 pandemic – the view of social workers and health care professionals in Sweden	3
The perceived risk of illicit drug use and views on drug policy in the general population	3