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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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	70
Assessment of liability to substance use disorder induced by two emerging stimulants, 4,4′-dimethylaminorex and escaline, in mice	43
Associations between college enrollment and trends in substance use among young adults in the US from 2015 to 2019	36
A case series examining the efficacy of gabapentin as a substitution therapy for the treatment of pregabalin use disorder	32
Alcohol use and drinking motives across five countries: a post-COVID-19 pandemic update	32
Factors associated with naloxone availability and dispensing through Michigan’s pharmacy standing order	30
Opioid-induced hypogonadism in opioid use disorder, its role in negative reinforcement, and implications for treatment and retention	28
Differential effects of moderate chronic ethanol consumption on neurobehavior, white matter glial protein expression, and mTOR pathway signaling with adolescent brain maturation	22
Impacts of the COVID-19 public health restrictions on substance use, mental health, and psychosocial functioning among individuals with alcohol use disorder	21
Childhood trauma, intraindividual reaction time variability, baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and perceived relapse tendency among males with substance use disorders	19
Cigarette and e-cigarette use as a function of psychological distress following COVID-19 related university campus closures	19
Family history, childhood maltreatment, and adolescent binge drinking exert synergistic effects on delay discounting and future alcohol use	16
Tianeptine: a new frontier in surveillance and understanding through social media	13
Uncertainty in overdose death reporting impedes the public health response	13
Elbasvir/grazoprevir for the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in people with opioid use disorder	13
Racial and ethnic inequities in substance use treatment among women with opioid use disorder	12
Initial evidence of reliability and validity of an implicit association test assessing attitudes toward individuals who use substances	12
Role of the media in promoting the dehumanization of people who use drugs	12
Substance use and help seeking as coping behaviors among parents and unpaid caregivers of adults in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Beneficial effects of atypical antipsychotics on object recognition deficits after adolescent toluene exposure in mice: involvement of 5-HT_1A receptors	12
The functional and molecular effects of problematic alcohol consumption on skeletal muscle: a focus on athletic performance	12
Current attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and nonmedical prescription opioid use attributed to tramadol among male adolescents without conduct disorder in Egypt	12
Substance use-related stigma: an exploratory study of search behavior using Google trends (2004-2021)	12
Improving Spanish translations of tobacco dependence measures using cognitive interviewing	12
Changes in alcohol consumption and binge drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic among American Indians residing in California and Oklahoma	11

Treatment of ketamine use disorder with combined gabapentin and topiramate: two case reports	11
A systematic meta-epidemiologic review on nonabstinence-inclusive interventions for substance use: inclusion of race/ethnicity and sex assigned at birth/gender	11
Willingness to provide a hair sample for drug testing: results from an anonymous multi-city intercept survey	11
Discordant report of vaping of cannabis among high school seniors in the United States	10
Simulated opioid choice linked to opioid use disorder severity among veterans with chronic pain: initial validation of a novel paradigm	10
Alterations in self-reported sensory gating and interoception in individuals frequently using cannabis	10
A systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in cannabis use disorder amongst people with comorbid mental illness	10
Differential expression and transcription factor binding associated with genotype at a pharmacogenetic variant in OPRD1	10
Appropriate analyses of bimodal substance use frequency outcomes: a mixture model approach	10
The contribution of positive affect and loneliness on readiness and self-efficacy to quit smoking among Spanish-speaking Mexican American smokers	10
Cannabis cravings predict cigarette use in schizophrenia: a secondary analysis from two cannabis abstinence studies	10
Kava (Piper methysticum) in the United States: the quiet rise of a substance with often subtle effects	9
When an obscurity becomes trend: social-media descriptions of tianeptine use and associated atypical drug use	9
Work-family interface on hazardous alcohol use and increased risk for prescription drug misuse among diverse working parents in STEM	9
Kratom use as more than a “self-treatment”	9
Sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of ICD-10 substance use codes in a cohort of substance use-related endocarditis patients	9
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	9
Increased medical utilization and psychiatric comorbidity following a new diagnosis of methamphetamine use disorder	9
Missouri’s Overdose Field Report: descriptive analysis, survival trends, and naloxone dosing patterns from a community-based survey tool, 2018–2022	9
Quetiapine attenuates the acquisition of morphine-induced conditioned place preference and reduces ERK phosphorylation in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex	8
The impact of relaxation of methadone take-home protocols on treatment outcomes in the COVID-19 era	8
Possible substance use disorders among first responders during the COVID-19 era: a quasi-experimental study of personal and residential vulnerability	8
Telehealth for opioid use disorder: retention as a function of demographics and rurality	8
Changes in modes of cannabis consumption pre- and post-legalization and their correlates among adults in Ontario, Canada: 2017–2022	8
Exploring the impact of inflammatory cytokines on alcoholic liver disease: a Mendelian randomization study with bioinformatics insights into potential biological mechanisms	8
Open-label study of consecutive ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT assisted-therapy for trauma-exposed male Special Operations Forces Veterans: prospective data from a clinical program in Mexico	8
Global intellectual ability and adaptive functioning in children with FASD with and without sentinel facial features	7
American Indian women’s perceptions of perinatal cannabis use	7
The paradoxical association between tension-reduction alcohol outcome expectancies and tension following alcohol consumption	7
The global distribution and epidemiology of alcohol and drug use among street-involved children and youth: a meta-analysis	7
Practical problems and positive experiences with ecological momentary assessment: reflections from people who use drugs	7
How adolescent tobacco use has responded to state tobacco 21 laws and flavor restrictions	7
Flumazenil partially reverses gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)-induced coma: a case report	7
The role of negative thinking and catastrophizing in the ordinary experience of withdrawal from substances	7
Successful treatment of dextromethorphan use disorder with combined naltrexone and gabapentin: a case report	7
Substance use disorders and pharmacotherapies: exploring public knowledge and supportive attitudes	7
#Delta8: a retailer-driven increase in Delta-8 THC discussions on Twitter from 2020 to 2021	7
Sexual excitation and sex-linked substance use predict overall cannabis use in mostly heterosexual and bisexual women	6
Fatal opioid overdoses in the U.S. declined more than reported between 2017 and 2018	6
Cannabis and aging: research remains in its infancy	6
Speed and accuracy of online searches by legislators and medical students using RefBin’s opioid use disorder database	6
Evaluation of spin in the abstracts of systematic reviews and meta-analyses focused on treatments of alcohol use disorder	6
Divergent changes: abstinence and higher-frequency substance use increase among racial/ethnic minority young adults during the COVID-19 global pandemic	6
Patient experiences with outpatient opioid use disorder treatment before and during COVID-19: results from a survey of Medicaid members	6
Spatiotemporal trends in discarded needle reports near schools in Boston, Massachusetts, between 2016-2019	5
Association of drinking behaviors with TXNIP DNA methylation levels in leukocytes among the general Japanese population	5
Preventing substance use among Latino youth: Initial results from a multistate family-based program focused on youth academic success	5
Many leveled ordinal models for frequency of alcohol and drug use	5
Long-term patient outcomes following buprenorphine/naloxone treatment for opioid use disorder: a retrospective analysis in a commercially insured population	5
On the challenges of hair testing to detect underreported substance use in research settings	5

Effects of chronic and binge ethanol administration on mouse cerebellar and hippocampal neuroinflammation	5
Intersectional forms of racism and sexual minority stress are associated with alcohol use among Latinx sexual minority men with greater Hispanic/Latinx cultural orientation	5
Opioid use and COVID-19: a secondary analysis of the impact of relaxation of methadone take-home dosing guidelines on use of illicit opioids	5
A Bayesian mixed effects support vector machine for learning and predicting daily substance use disorder patterns	5
Addressing stimulant use disorder through state opioid response grants from the substance abuse and mental health services administration: Missouri’s initial approach	5
Attitudes and beliefs among Georgia addiction treatment staff about medication for opioid use disorder in adolescents, young adults, and adults: a multi-mixed methods study	5
A review on the reciprocal interactions between neuroinflammatory processes and substance use and misuse, with a focus on alcohol misuse	5
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	5