OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Cannabis cravings predict cigarette use in schizophrenia: a secondary analysis from two cannabis abstinence studies	72
Willingness to provide a hair sample for drug testing: results from an anonymous multi-city intercept survey	48
Treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in people with opioid use disorder: a real-world study of elbasvir/grazoprevir in a US Department of Veterans Affairs population	38
Uncertainty in overdose death reporting impedes the public health response	35
Assessment of liability to substance use disorder induced by two emerging stimulants, 4,4′-dimethylaminorex and escaline, in mice	29
Greater loss of face and family honor values are associated with greater positive expectancies and substance abuse among Middle Eastern/Northern African U.S. college students	22
Initial evidence of reliability and validity of an implicit association test assessing attitudes toward individuals who use substances	21
Differential effects of moderate chronic ethanol consumption on neurobehavior, white matter glial protein expression, and mTOR pathway signaling with adolescent brain maturation	21
A case series examining the efficacy of gabapentin as a substitution therapy for the treatment of pregabalin use disorder	20
Correction	18
Assessing factors associated with knowledge of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) penalties	18
Association of drinking behaviors with TXNIP DNA methylation levels in leukocytes among the general Japanese population	15
Alcohol-related non-fatal motor vehicle crash injury in the US from 2019 to 2022	14
Fatal opioid overdoses in the U.S. declined more than reported between 2017 and 2018	14
Addressing stimulant use disorder through state opioid response grants from the substance abuse and mental health services administration: Missouri’s initial approach	14
Exploring survey methods for measuring consumption quantities of cannabis flower and concentrate products	14
Many leveled ordinal models for frequency of alcohol and drug use	14
Internet-based, continuously available Narcotics Anonymous meetings: a new resource for access to Twelve Step support for abstinence	13
Disentangling the effects of racism-related stress on opioid use disorder and chronic pain outcomes	13
Responding to changes in the unregulated drug supply: the need for a dynamic approach to drug checking technologies	13
Feasibility of a telehealth-based contingency management intervention for alcohol use disorders using the phosphatidylethanol (PEth) 16:0/18:1 alcohol biomarker: a pilot randomized trial	13
Opioid overdose after extended-release buprenorphine injection: a case report	13
Social influence on drug use and sexual behaviors among rural LGBTQ+ individuals	12
Correction	12
Geographic trends in overall and long-acting opioid prescriptions under Medicaid and Medicare Part D in the United States, 2013–2021	12

A novel rural hospital/clinic-system practice-based research network: the Rural Addiction Implementation Network (RAIN) initiative and its goals, implementation, and early results	12
Racial/ethnic group comparisons of quit ratios and prevalences of cessation-related factors among adults who smoke with a quit attempt	11
Functional neuroanatomy of craving in heroin use disorder: voxel-based meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) drug cue reactivity studies	11
Gene knockdown of HCN2 ion channels in the ventral tegmental area reduces ethanol consumption in alcohol preferring rats	11
Withdrawal interference scale: a novel measure of withdrawal-related life disruption in opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder	11
Assessment of patient perception of treatment assignment and patient-reported outcomes in a cannabis use disorder trial	11
Development and initial findings from the Peer Recovery Coach (PRC) checklist: a new tool to assess the nature of peer recovery coaching service delivery	11
Drug and alcohol positivity of traumatically injured patients related to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders	11
Plasma leptin levels are lower in females, but not males, with ketamine use disorder	10
Alcohol protective behavioral strategies for young adults: a content analysis across drinking contexts and gender	10
Anger is more strongly associated with alcohol and tobacco use and use disorders compared to other substances in American adults	10
Cocaine self-administration behavior is associated with subcortical and cortical morphometry measures in individuals with cocaine use disorder	10
Alterations in surface-based brain morphometry in men with opioid use disorder	10
X-ray absorption spectroscopy combined with deep learning for auto and rapid illicit drug detection	10
A cross-national examination of cannabis protective behavioral strategies’ role in the relationship between Big Five personality traits and cannabis outcomes	10
At least four groups of kratom consumers in the United States: latent-class analysis of motivations for kratom use	10
Changes in attitudes toward alcohol control policies in Lithuania: findings from two representative surveys in 2015 and 2020	9
Coroner county systems are associated with a higher likelihood of unclassified drug overdoses compared to medical examiner county systems	9
The cost-effectiveness of long-term post-treatment peer recovery support services in the United States	9
Psychometric properties of the Spanish simultaneous alcohol and cannabis motives measure (S-SMM) and its short form (S-SMM-SF) among young adults	9
Changes in frequency of cannabis use among people with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-methods study to explore the underlying reasons for change	9
Age patterns and predictors of cannabis initiation among biracial and monoracial U.S. youth	9
Withdrawal catastrophizing scale: initial psychometric properties and implications for the study of opioid use disorder and hyperkatifeia	8
Treatment retention and reductions in blood alcohol concentration (BAC) during the first 90 days of a telehealth program for alcohol use disorder	8
Differential prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by gender and substance used in individuals with cannabis, cocaine, opioid, and tobacco use disorders	8
Baseline C-reactive protein levels are predictive of treatment response to a neuroimmune modulator in individuals with an alcohol use disorder: a preliminary study	8
Large-scale longitudinal analysis of the progression of alcohol use among members of a social media platform: an observational study	8
Overdoses and deaths related to the use of ketamine and its analogues: a systematic review	8
How much illegally manufactured fentanyl could the U.S. be consuming?	7
A study of long-term supraphysiologic-dose anabolic-androgenic steroid use on cognitive function in middle-aged men	7
Effects of fisetin on ethanol-induced rewarding properties in mice	7
Assessment of the Short Grit Scale in patients with substance use disorder: Psychometric properties and patient characteristics	7
Suicide and the opioid overdose crisis among American Indian and Alaska Natives: a storm on two fronts demanding swift action	7
Primary prevention of prescription opioid diversion: a systematic review of medication disposal interventions	7
Challenges of obtaining accurate adolescent self-report of cannabis use	7
Flexibly modeling age trends in the prevalence of co-occurring patterns of substance use and mental health disorders using time-varying effects and latent class analysis	7
Cannabis retail store density and county-level mortality from injury in the state of Washington from 2009–2020	7
Processing abnormalities in monetary outcome evaluations among male individuals with opioid use disorder: evidence from feedback-related negativity	7
Six-month length of stay associated with better recovery outcomes among residents of sober living houses	7
Improving Spanish translations of tobacco dependence measures using cognitive interviewing	6
A systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in cannabis use disorder amongst people with comorbid mental illness	6
Opioid use and COVID-19: a secondary analysis of the impact of relaxation of methadone take-home dosing guidelines on use of illicit opioids	6
Fiduciary assignment as a potential intervention for substance use disorder: a retrospective chart review	6
Meta-analysis of primary care delivered buprenorphine treatment retention outcomes	6
Alcohol use and drinking motives across five countries: a post-COVID-19 pandemic update	6
Opium, phencyclidine, and crack cocaine smoking associations with lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancers: exploratory findings from a case-control study in Los Angeles County	6
The paradoxical association between tension-reduction alcohol outcome expectancies and tension following alcohol consumption	6
A review on the reciprocal interactions between neuroinflammatory processes and substance use and misuse, with a focus on alcohol misuse	6
Alterations in self-reported sensory gating and interoception in individuals frequently using cannabis	6
Childhood trauma, intraindividual reaction time variability, baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and perceived relapse tendency among males with substance use disorders	6

Long-term patient outcomes following buprenorphine/naloxone treatment for opioid use disorder: a retrospective analysis in a commercially insured population	6
Buprenorphine in safety-sensitive positions	6
Alcohol withdrawal and amphetamine co-use in an animal model for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	6
Ethanol causes non-communicable disease through activation of NLRP3 inflammasome: a review on mechanism of action and potential interventions	5
Telehealth for opioid use disorder: retention as a function of demographics and rurality	5
Effects of current smoking severity on brain gray matter volume in opioid use disorder – a voxel-based morphometry study	5
Synergistic effect of combined transcranial direct current stimulation and Matrix ‎Model on the reduction of methamphetamine craving and improvement of cognitive ‎functioning: a randomized sham-contro	5
Quantitative and qualitative outcomes associated with inpatient addiction consultation: a scoping review	5
Longitudinal factors associated with increased alcohol consumption in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The global distribution and epidemiology of alcohol and drug use among street-involved children and youth: a meta-analysis	5
Applied statistical methods for identifying features of heart rate that are associated with nicotine vaping	5