Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy

Article	Citations
Mindfulness-based programs for substance use disorders: a systematic review of manualized treatments	58
Use of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and other substances during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe: a survey on 36,000 European substance users	54
The impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on drug overdose-related deaths in the United States and Canada: a systematic review of observational studies and analysis of public hea	47
Stigma: how it affects the substance use disorder patient	45
Measuring capital in active addiction and recovery: the development of the strengths and barriers recovery scale (SABRS)	34
An overview of select cannabis use and supply indicators pre- and post-legalization in Canada	32
Mental health problems among young people in substance abuse treatment in Sweden	27
“Personal recovery depends on NA unity”: an exploratory study on recovery-supportive elements in Narcotics Anonymous Flanders	27
A mixed-method comparison of physician-reported beliefs about and barriers to treatment with medications for opioid use disorder	26
‘Resurgent’, ‘twin’ or ‘silent’ epidemic? A select data overview and observations on increasing psycho-stimulant use and harms in North America	26
The prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use disorder among people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	26
The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare delivery for people who use opioids: a scoping review	25
Prevalence of drug use, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking and measure of socioeconomic-related inequalities of drug use among Iranian people: findings from a national survey	25
Health-related quality of life of long-term patients receiving opioid agonist therapy: a nested prospective cohort study in Norway	25
Substance use disorders in Saudi Arabia: a scoping review	24
Changes in cannabis use, exposure, and health perceptions following legalization of adult recreational cannabis use in California: a prospective observational study	23
Determinants and prevalence of relapse among patients with substance use disorders: case of Icyizere Psychotherapeutic Centre	23
Alcohol consumption and its associated factors among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis' as given in the submission system	22
Barriers, facilitators, and disparities in retention for adolescents in treatment for substance use disorders: a qualitative study with treatment providers	22
“With tramadol, I ride like a Jaguar”: a qualitative study of motivations for non-medical purpose tramadol use among commercial vehicle operators in Kumasi, Ghana	21
Recent changes in trends of opioid overdose deaths in North America	21
A double-edged sword of using opioids and COVID-19: a toxicological view	20
Validity of self-reported substance use: research setting versus primary health care setting	18
Alcohol use disorders and the risk of progression of liver disease in people with hepatitis C virus infection – a systematic review	18
20 years of Portuguese drug policy - developments, challenges and the quest for human rights	18

Examining prevalence and correlates of smoking opioids in British Columbia: opioids are more often smoked than injected	17
Patterns of ecstasy use amongst live music event attendees and their opinions on pill testing: a cross sectional study	17
Improving equity and access to buprenorphine treatment through telemedicine at syringe services programs	17
The effects of opium on the cardiovascular system: a review of side effects, uses, and potential mechanisms	17
Perceived healthcare stigma among patients in opioid substitution treatment: a qualitative study	17
Gender disparities in opioid treatment progress in methadone versus counseling	16
A scoping review of factors that influence opioid overdose prevention for justice-involved populations	15
Implementation of tobacco control measures in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, 2008–2020	15
Prevalence and associated factors for alcohol use disorder among tuberculosis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis study	15
Assessing the impact of a restrictive opioid prescribing law in West Virginia	15
Missed opportunity for alcohol use disorder screening and management in primary health care facilities in northern rural Tanzania: a cross-sectional survey	15
Take home injectable opioids for opioid use disorder during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic is in urgent need: a case study	15
The changing alcohol drinking patterns among older adults show that women are closing the gender gap in more frequent drinking: the Tromsø study, 1994–2016	15
Substance use and symptoms of mental health disorders: a prospective cohort of patients with severe substance use disorders in Norway	15
Prevalence and high risk behaviours associated with HCV testing among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and Meta-analysis	15
Drug Abstinence Self-Efficacy Scale (DASES): psychometric properties of the Farsi version	14
PTSD and opioid use: implications for intervention and policy	14
Patient perspectives on depot buprenorphine treatment for opioid addiction – a qualitative interview study	13
Research led by people who use drugs: centering the expertise of lived experience	13
Individualized approach to primary prevention of substance use disorder: age-related risks	13
Pattern of cigarette smoking: intensity, cessation, and age of beginning: evidence from a cohort study in West of Iran	12
Strategies to promote the implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in healthcare settings: a scoping review	12
The consequences of regular methamphetamine use in Tehran: qualitative content analysis	12
Social capital and chemsex initiation in young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men: the pink carpet Y cohort study	12
Large and non-specific somatic disease burdens among ageing, long-term opioid maintenance treatment patients	12
Frequencies of emergency department use and hospitalization comparing patients with different types of substance or polysubstance-related disorders	12
The relationship between family intimacy and relapse tendency among people who use drugs: a moderated mediation model	12
Moving towards a continuum of safer supply options for people who use drugs: A qualitative study exploring national perspectives on safer supply among professional stakeholders in Canada	11
Three-month outcomes from a patient-centered program to treat opioid use disorder in Iowa, USA	11
Prevalence and perceived importance of racial matching in the psychotherapeutic dyad: a national survey of addictions treatment clinical practices	11
“The DEA would come in and destroy you”: a qualitative study of fear and unintended consequences among opioid prescribers in WV	11
Associations between parental alcohol problems in childhood and adversities during childhood and later adulthood: a cross-sectional study of 28047 adults from the general population	11
Prevalence and factors associated with substance use among street children in Jimma town, Oromiya national regional state, Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study	10
Effectiveness of naltrexone treatment for alcohol use disorders in HIV: a systematic review	10
Uptake and predictors of direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C among people receiving opioid agonist therapy in Sweden and Norway: a drug utilization study from 2014 to 2017	10
Healthcare cost associations of patients who use illicit drugs in Florida: a retrospective analysis	10
The growth of recovery capital in clients of recovery residences in Florida, USA: a quantitative pilot study of changes in REC-CAP profile scores	10
Non -fatal overdose among people who inject drugs in Tehran, Iran	9
Naloxone availability in independent community pharmacies in Georgia, 2019	9
Differences in addiction and recovery gains according to gender – gender barriers and specific differences in overall strengths growth	9
Resilience and related factors as predictors of relapse risk in patients with substance use disorder: a cross-sectional study	9
Opioid use, regulation, and harms in Brazil: a comprehensive narrative overview of available data and indicators	9
Cyber-ethnography of cannabis marketing on social media	9
Factors associated with substance use disorder treatment completion: a cross-sectional analysis of justice-involved adolescents	9
A scoping review of school-based indigenous substance use prevention in preteens (7–13 years)	8
Impact of clinical and sociodemographic factors on fatigue among patients with substance use disorder: a cohort study from Norway for the period 2016–2020	8
Prevalence and correlates of non-daily and daily cannabis use among persons 15 years and older in South Africa: results of a national survey in 2017	8
Socioeconomic correlates of incident and fatal opioid overdose among Swedish people with opioid use disorder	8
The therapeutic effects of methylphenidate and matrix-methylphenidate on addiction severity, craving, relapse and mental health in the methamphetamine use disorder	8
The effects of maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy on adverse fetal outcomes among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: a p	8

Various forms of alcohol use and their predictors among pregnant women in post conflict northern Uganda: a cross sectional study	8
Perspectives of illicit marijuana growers and traders on commercial legalisation of marijuana in South Africa: considerations for policy formulation	8
Understanding injecting drug use in Afghanistan: A scoping review	8
“Setting people up for success and then failure” – health care and service providers’ experiences of using prize-based contingency management	8
Barriers and motivators to participation and retention in HIV/HCV cohort studies among people who inject drugs: a community consultation in Iran	7
A review of research-supported group treatments for drug use disorders	7
“That’s the whole thing about vaping, it’s custom tasty goodness”: a meta-ethnography of young adults’ perceptions and experiences of e-cigarette use	7
Digital interventions for substance use disorders in young people: rapid review	7
Exploring the effectiveness of dextroamphetamine for the treatment of stimulant use disorder: a qualitative study with patients receiving injectable opioid agonist treatment	7
Smoking identified as preferred mode of opioid safe supply use; investigating correlates of smoking preference through a 2021 cross-sectional study in British Columbia	7
A review of the public sector substance use disorder treatment and prevention systems in Kenya	7
Alcohol and illicit drug use among young people living with HIV compared to their uninfected peers from the Kenyan coast: prevalence and risk indicators	7
A chart review of substance use screening and related documentation among adolescents in outpatient pediatric clinics: implications for practice	7
Changes in opioid-related deaths following increased access to opioid substitution treatment	7
Alcohol use and associated factors among adolescent boys and young men in Kampala, Uganda	7
Khat induced psychotic disorder: case report	7
COVID 19—impact on substance use treatment utilization and provision in South Africa	7
Youth substance use service provider’s perspectives on use and service access in ontario: time to reframe the discourse	7
A qualitative study exploring how young people perceive and experience substance use services in British Columbia, Canada	7
Variations in national availability of waivered buprenorphine prescribers by racial and ethnic composition of zip codes	6
Qualitative assessment of patients’ perspectives and needs from community pharmacists in substance use disorder management	6
Stimulant use disorder diagnosis and opioid agonist treatment dispensation following release from prison: a cohort study	6
“They’re not doing enough.”: women’s experiences with opioids and naloxone in Toronto	6
Polysubstance use in a community sample of Black cisgender sexual minority men and transgender women in Chicago during initial COVID-19 pandemic peak	6
Effects of treatment status and life quality on anxiety in MMT patients	6
Barriers and facilitators to opioid agonist therapy in rural and remote communities in Canada: an integrative review	6
The prevalence of people who inject drugs among those with HIV late presentation: a meta-analysis	6
Concerns among people who use opioids during the COVID-19 pandemic: a natural language processing analysis of social media posts	6
“I can’t live like that”: the experience of caregiver stress of caring for a relative with substance use disorder	6
Medicaid professional fees for treatment of opioid use disorder varied widely across states and were substantially below fees paid by medicare in 2021	5
Examination of referral source and retention among women in residential substance use disorder treatment: a prospective follow-up study	5
Changes in quality of life and its associated factors among illicit drug users in Vietnamese mountainous provinces: a 12-month follow-up study	5
Patterns, trends and determinants of medical opioid utilization in Canada 2005–2020: characterizing an era of intensive rise and fall	5
Shifting the paradigm: physician-authorized, student-led efforts to provide harm reduction services amidst legislative opposition	5
Non-financial barriers in oral health care: a qualitative study of patients receiving opioid maintenance treatment and professionals’ experiences	5
“Students in public and private schools—which are at higher risk of drug use?”: a survey from Iran	5
The “black box” of treatment: Patients’ perspective on what works in opioid maintenance treatment for opioid dependence	5
“Sometimes you have to take the person and show them how”: adapting behavioral activation for peer recovery specialist-delivery to improve methadone treatment retention	5
Relationships between consumption patterns, health beliefs, and subjective wellbeing in Chinese Baijiu consumers	5
Tobacco use, smoking identities and pathways into and out of smoking among young adults: a meta-ethnography	5
French People’s positions on supervised injection facilities for drug users	5
The prevalence and pattern of cannabis use among patients attending a methadone treatment clinic in Nairobi, Kenya	4
Perceived difficulty of getting help to reduce or abstain from substances among sexual and gender minority men who have sex with men (SGMSM) and use methamphetamine during the early period of the COVI	4
The association between methamphetamine use and number of sexual partners in men who have sex with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Investigating the sequential patterns of methamphetamine use initiation in Iran	4
HIV testing and its associated factors among street-based female sex workers in Iran: results of a national rapid assessment and response survey	4
“I think everybody should take it if they’re doing drugs, doing heroin, or having sex for money”: a qualitative study exploring perceptions of pre-exposure prophylaxis among female participants in an	4
Factors predicting satisfaction in outpatient substance abuse treatment: a prospective follow-up study	4
Faculty, staff, and student perceptions of substance use disorder stigma in health profession training programs: a quantitative study	4
Navigating intersecting public health crises: a qualitative study of people with opioid use disorders' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Becoming our young people’s case managers: caregivers’ experiences, needs, and ideas for improving opioid use treatments for young people using opioids	4
Factors associated with take-home naloxone kit usage in British Columbia: an analysis of administrative data	4
Safety considerations in the evolving legal landscape of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy	4
Developing and validating a measurement tool to self-report perceived barriers in substance use treatment: the substance use treatment barriers questionnaire (SUTBQ)	4
Daily cannabis use during the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Canada: a repeated cross-sectional study from May 2020 to December 2020	4
Health service engagement, side effects and concerns among men with anabolic-androgenic steroid use: a cross-sectional Norwegian study	4
Drug dealing and drug use prevention – a qualitative interview study of authorities’ perspectives on two open drug scenes in Stockholm	4
Evolution of policy for the treatment of substance use disorders in Qatar	4
Assessing the quality of information provided on websites selling Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) to consumers in Canada	4
Preferences and acceptability of law enforcement initiated referrals for people who inject drugs: a mixed methods analysis	4
Outcomes from the medication assisted treatment pilot program for adults with opioid use disorders in rural Colorado	4
Alcohol drinking as a mediator of the influence of smoking prevalence on second-hand smoke exposure in workplaces: a mediation analysis	4
The impact of PSTD on service access among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada	4
Binge-drinking and household role’s associations with prevalence of domestic violence: findings from the Thailand smoking and drinking behaviour survey 2017	3
Evaluation of post-discharge engagement for emergency department patients with opioid use history who received telehealth recovery coaching services	3
Equine-assisted services for individuals with substance use disorders: a scoping review	3
Product variety and regulation avoidance in the sale of new tobacco products: findings from a point-of-sale survey in Indonesia	3
Commercial and public payer opioid analgesic prescribing policies: a case study	3
Assessing the impact of Indiana legislation on opioid-based doctor shopping among Medicaid-enrolled pregnant women: a regression analysis	3
Hookah use patterns, social influence and associated other substance use among a sample of New York City public university students	3
Variation in brief treatment for substance use disorder: a qualitative investigation of four federally qualified health centers with SBIRT services	3
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in the Russian language - a systematic review of validation efforts and application challenges	3
Changes in substance use during outpatient treatment for substance use disorders: a prospective Norwegian cohort study from 2016 to 2020	3
Investigating the factor structure of a translated recovery-orientation instrument in inpatient treatment for substance use disorder	3
Interdisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of alcohol use disorders in a general hospital department: a mixed-method study	3
Subjective symptoms and serum methadone concentrations: what should guide dose adjustments in methadone maintenance treatment? A naturalistic cohort study from Norway	3
Acute Toxic Effects of the New Psychoactive Substance “Voodoo” among Patients presented to the Poison Control Center of Ain Shams University Hospitals (PCC-ASUH), Egypt, during 2017	3
Drug use patterns and factors related to the use and discontinuation of medications for opioid use disorder in the age of fentanyl: findings from a mixed-methods study of people who use drugs	3
The association of workplace health education with smoking-related behaviour and unequal gains by job position in China: ABWMC programme findings	3
“2.5 g, I could do that before noon”: a qualitative study on people who use drugs’ perspectives on the impacts of British Columbia’s decriminalization of illegal drugs threshold limit	3

Mapping and comparing French people’s positions regarding restrictive control policies: a pilot study	3
The effects of opioid policy changes on transitions from prescription opioids to heroin, fentanyl and injection drug use: a qualitative analysis	3
Cannabis use in patients treated for opioid use disorder pre- and post-recreational cannabis legalization in Canada	3
Sorting through life: evaluating patient-important measures of success in a medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment program	3
Healthcare seeking among Swedish patients in opioid substitution treatment – a mixed methods study on barriers and facilitators	3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol or drug use symptoms and service need among youth: a cross-sectional sample from British Columbia, Canada	3
The prospects for sustaining evidence-based responses to the US opioid epidemic: state leadership perspectives	3
Client satisfaction to methadone maintenance treatment program in Myanmar	3
Prevalence and correlates of substance use among school-going adolescents (11-18years) in eight Sub-Saharan Africa countries	3
The relationship between severity of drug problems and perceived interdependence of drug use and sexual intercourse among adult males in drug addiction rehabilitation centers in Japan	3
Assessing public behavioral health services data: a mixed method analysis	3
Alcohol outlets and alcohol consumption in changing environments: prevalence and changes over time	3
Some notes on the use, concept and socio-political framing of ‘stigma’ focusing on an opioid-related public health crisis	3
Contextual influences of illicit adolescent marijuana cultivation and trading in the Inqguza Hill local municipality of South Africa: implications for public health policy	3
Validation and psychometric properties of the drug users’ quality of life scale in Iranian population	3
Alcohol use disorders, beverage preferences and the influence of alcohol marketing: a preliminary study	3