OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Substance Abuse is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Training Providers of People Who Use Drugs to Offer Hepatitis C Treatment: A Washington State Initiative	73
The Association of Vaping With Social/Emotional Health and Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in Adolescent and Young Adult Cohorts During the COVID-19 Pandemic	49
Coverage of the Opioid Crisis in National Network Television News from 2000–2020: A Content Analysis	36
Patients with Substance use Disorders Receiving Continued Care in Skilled Nursing Facilities following Hospitalization	35
Balancing Need and Risk, Supply and Demand: Developing a Tool to Prioritize Naloxone Distribution	35
Associations Between Patient-Reported Experiences with Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Unmet Treatment Needs and Discontinuation Among Virginia Medicaid Members	35
Mobile Phone and Internet use among People who Inject Drugs: Implications for Mobile Health Interventions	34
“Stories of starting”: Understanding the complex contexts of opioid misuse initiation	33
Perception of Pharmacy Students Toward Opioid-Related Disorders and Roles of Community Pharmacists: A French Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study	32
Commentary Article: Strategic Planning for Addiction Programs within Academic Medical Centers: Examples from the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine	32
Multidisciplinary Treatment of Opioid use Disorder in Primary Care using the Collaborative Care Model	31
Perceived Impact of COVID-19 on Prevention, Treatment, Harm Reduction, and Recovery Services for Opioid use Disorder: National Survey of Local Health Departments	30
Article Commentary: Increasing Evidence-Based Substance use Interventions Globally: The National Institute on Drug Abuse Postdoctoral Fellowships	28
Rapid Buprenorphine Microdosing for Opioid use Disorder in a Hospitalized Patient Receiving Very High Doses of Full Agonist Opioids for Acute Pain Management: Titration, Implementation Barriers, and S	27
Developing and Validating An Opioid Overdose Prevention and Response Curriculum for Undergraduate Medical Education	27
Awareness of Heated Tobacco Products among US Adults – Health Information National Trends Survey, 2020	27
Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Home Delivery Laws during the COVID-19 Pandemic	26
“It's a Place that Gives me Hope”: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Buprenorphine-Naloxone Group Visit Program in an Urban Federally Qualified Health Center	26
MIRRORS Program: Helping Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Families with Substance use Problems	25
Engagement in Perinatal Outpatient Services among Women in Recovery from Opioid use Disorders	25
The Metropolitan Context of Substance use and Substance use Disorders among US Adults on Probation or Parole Supervision	25
Predictors of Substance use Disorder Treatment Initiation and Engagement among Adolescents Enrolled in Medicaid	25
Implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) by Nurses on Acute Care Units: A Qualitative Descriptive Study	23
Collaboration in a Time of Crisis: Adapting a Telementoring ECHO for Addiction Leaders during COVID-19	23
Early Implementation of Screening for Substance use in Rural Primary Care: A Rapid Analytic Qualitative Study	23

Case Report: Increasing the Frequency of Intramuscular Naltrexone Administration in a High Risk Patient with Opioid use Disorder	22
Effect of Regular Kratom (Mitragyna Speciosa Korth.) Use on Quality of Life of People who use Kratom	22
Evaluating ACGME-Accredited Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Online Content: A Critical Analysis of Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program Websites in the US	22
Implementing Adolescent SBIRT: Findings from the FaCES Project	22
Trait Mindfulness and Cannabis Use–Related Factors in Adolescents and Young Adults with Frequent Use	22
Adolescent Caffeine Consumption and Aggressive Behavior: A Longitudinal Assessment	20
Geographic Differences in Receipt of Addictions Treatment in a National Sample of Patients with Alcohol use Disorders from the U.S. Veterans Health Administration	20
Feasibility and Acceptability of an Online ECHO Intervention to Expand access to Medications for Treatment of Opioid use Disorder, Psychosocial Treatments and Supports	20
Research Priorities for Expansion of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the Community Pharmacy	20
Perspectives among Women Receiving Medications for Opioid use Disorder: Implications for Development of a Peer Navigation Intervention to Improve Access to Family Planning Services	20
A Systematic Literature Review and Narrative Synthesis of Effective Interventions for Family and Caregivers of People who use Methamphetamine	19
Harms Versus Harms: Rethinking Treatment for Patients on Long-Term Opioids	19
Leveraging Technology to Address Unhealthy Drug use in Primary Care: Effectiveness of the Substance use Screening and Intervention Tool (SUSIT)	19
Tobacco Quitline Engagement and Outcomes among Primary Care Patients Reporting use of Tobacco or Dual Tobacco and Cannabis: An Observational Study	18
The use and Impact of Self-Monitoring on Substance use Outcomes: A Descriptive Systematic Review	18
Pharmacists’ Stigma Toward Patients Engaged in Opioid Misuse: When “Social Distance” does not Mean Disease Prevention	18
Identifying Naloxone Administrations in Electronic Health Record Data using a Text-Mining Tool	17
A Hospital-Wide Initiative to Redesign Substance use Disorder Care: Impact on Pharmacotherapy Initiation	17
Incoming Medical Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward People with Substance use Disorders: Implications for Curricular Training	17
“Narcan Encounters:” Overdose and Naloxone Rescue Experiences among People who use Opioids	17
“And Then the Rest Happened”— a Qualitative Exploration of the Role that Meaningful Activities Play in Recovery Processes for People with a Diagnosis of Substance use Disorder	16
The “High Cost of Low Living”: Substance use Recovery among Older Formerly Homeless Adults	16
A Rapid-Cycle Assessment Strategy for Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic in Local Communities	16
Using Data Science to Improve Outcomes for Persons with Opioid use Disorder	16
Improving Medical Students’ Attitude toward Patients with Substance use Problems through Addiction Medicine Education	16
Understanding Barriers to Treatment among Individuals not Engaged in Treatment who Misuse Opioids: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach	16
Personal and Professional Attitudes Associated with Nurses’ Motivation to Work with Patients with Opioid use and Opioid Use-Related Problems	16
Assessing Assessments: Substance use Disorder Treatment Providers’ Perceptions of Intake Assessments	15
Attitudes Toward and Experiences Working with Patients who Misuse Opioids among Board Certified Physicians in Ohio	15
Exploring the Association of State Policies and the Trajectories of Buprenorphine Prescriber Patient Caseloads	15
Rates of Prescription Orders for United States Active Duty Service Members Diagnosed with Alcohol use Disorder	15
Care Practices of Mental Health Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners Within an Interdisciplinary Primary Care Model for Patients With Substance Use Disorders	15
Alcohol Trajectories and Subsequent Risk for Opioid Misuse in a Cohort of Urban Adolescents	14
“The Assessment Really Helps you with the First Step in Recovery.” What do Clients Think Substance use Disorder Treatment Intake Assessments Should Look Like?	14
National Trends in Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder From 2007 to 2018	14
A National Study of Homelessness, Social Determinants of Health, and Treatment Engagement Among Outpatient Medication for Opioid Use Disorder-Seeking Individuals in the United States	14
Contextual Challenges in Police-Assisted Substance use Referral Programs: Impact of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter Movement	14
An Examination of how E-Cigarette/Cigarette use during Adolescence is Associated with Future use during the Third Trimester of Pregnancy	14
Latent Profile Analysis in Recovery Homes: A Single Quantitative Dimension Captures Most but Not All of the Important Details of the Recovery Process	14
Patient Acceptance of Naloxone Resulting from Targeted Intervention from Community Pharmacists to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Accidental Overdose	13
Erratum to Volume 44 Issue 1-2, January-April 2023	13
How Essential is Kratom Availability and use during COVID-19? Use Pattern Analysis Based on Survey and Social Media Data	13
Physical Therapists’ Attitudes are Associated with their Confidence in and the Frequency with which they Engage in Prescription Opioid Medication Misuse Management Practices with their Patients. A Cro	13
Impact of Stigmatizing Language Describing Opioid-Exposed Mother Infant Dyads: A Randomized Case Vignette Study	13
Young Adult Perspectives on their Respiratory Health Symptoms Since Vaping	13
Impact of Extended Release Naltrexone on Health-Related Quality of Life in Individuals with Legal Involvement and Opioid use Disorders	13
Project CHOICE: Choosing Healthy Options in Coping with Emotions, an EMA/EMI Plus In-Person Intervention for Alcohol Use	13
Policies regarding Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Professional Recovery Programs: A Scoping Review	12
Interventions for Hospitalized Medical and Surgical Patients with Opioid use Disorder: A Systematic Review	12
The Effects of Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Training on Health Professional Trainees’ Regard, Attitudes, and Beliefs toward Patients who use Substances	12

Exploring the Formation of Treatment Program Director Perceptions on Entry-Level Social Workers’ Substance use Treatment Capacities in New York	12
Effects of Smoking Marijuana on the Respiratory System: A Systematic Review	11
Predictors and Moderators of Response to Brief Interventions among Adolescents with Risky Alcohol and Marijuana Use	11
Opioid-Related Incident Severity and Emergency Medical Service Naloxone Administration by Sex in Massachusetts, 2013–2019	11
Physician Trainees’ Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, and Self-Efficacy When Caring for People who Inject Drugs	11
Increasing Preference for Fentanyl among a Cohort of People who use Opioids in Vancouver, Canada, 2017-2018	11
Cardiac Surgeons’ Practices and Attitudes toward Addiction Care for Patients with Substance use Disorders	11
Understanding Sexual and Gender Minority Substance use through Latent Profiles of Ecological Systems	11
Commentary Article: Opioid use Disorder Cascade of Care Framework Design: A Roadmap	11
An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach for the Detection and Characterization of Illicit Drug-Dealing Comments and Interactions on Instagram	11
Management of Kratom Dependence with Buprenorphine/Naloxone in a Veteran Population	11
Childhood Trauma and the Severity of past Suicide Attempts in Outpatients with Cocaine use Disorders	11
Rates of Discontinuation and Non-Publication of Trials for the Pharmacologic Treatment of Alcohol use Disorder	11
Evaluation of the New England Office Based Addiction Treatment ECHO: A Tool for Strengthening the Addiction Workforce	10
Caregivers of People with Substance use or Mental Health Disorders in the US	10
Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Practices Related to Opioid Risk Assessment and Mitigation: A Comparison of Health Care Professionals in Rural Communities	10
“It's that Longitudinal Relationship that Pays off”: A Qualitative Study of Internal Medicine Residents’ Perspectives on Learning to Prescribe Buprenorphine	10
Impact of Pharmacist Contact via Telephone vs Letter on Rate of Acquisition of Naloxone Rescue Kits by Patients with Opioid use Disorder	10
Project ECHO and Primary Care Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid use Disorder: Implementation and Clinical Outcomes	10
Concerts, Bars, Parties, and Raves: Differential Risk for Drug use among High School Seniors According to Venue Attendance	10
Characteristics Associated with Motivation to Stop Substance use and Improve Skin and Needle Hygiene among Hospitalized Patients who Inject Drugs	10
Perceptions Diverge on Aspects Related to Substance use Disorder: An Analysis of Individuals in Recovery, Physicians, Nurses, and Medical Students	10
“The Idea is to Help People Achieve Greater Success and Liberty”: A Qualitative Study of Expanded Methadone Take-Home access in Opioid use Disorder Treatment	10
Use of Pre-Enrollment Randomization and Delayed Consent to Maximize Participation in a Clinical Trial of Opt-In versus Opt-Out Tobacco Treatment	10
How should we Define “Rural” when Investigating Rural Tobacco use in the United States?	10
Factors Associated with Primary Health Care Providers’ Alcohol Screening Behavior in Colombia, Mexico and Peru	10
Shared Injection Experiences: Interpersonal Involvement in Injection Drug Practices among Women	10
Increasing Buprenorphine access for Veterans with Opioid use Disorder in Rural Clinics using Telemedicine	9
Food Insecurity and Substance use in People with HIV Infection and Substance use Disorder	9
Sociodemographic Differences in Quality of Treatment to Medicaid Enrollees Receiving Buprenorphine	9
Opioid Harm Reduction: A Scoping Review of Physician and System-Level Gaps in Knowledge, Education, and Practice	9
Perceptions of Peer and Parental Attitudes toward Substance use and Actual Adolescent Substance Use: The Impact of Adolescent-Confidant Relationships	9
The Impact of Obesity in Patients Hospitalized with Opioid/Opiate Overdose	9
High Prevalence of Unmet Healthcare Need among People who use Illicit Drugs in a Canadian Setting with Publicly-Funded Interdisciplinary Primary Care Clinics	9
Cervical Cancer Screening, Abnormal Results, and Follow-Up in Women with Substance Use-Related Diagnoses	9
Cannabis use in Adolescence and Risk of Psychosis: Are there Factors that Moderate this Relationship? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	9
The Impact of Sexual Victimization on Substance Use Disorder Treatment Completion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	9
Alcohol and Educational Inequalities: Hazardous Drinking Prevalence and All-Cause Mortality by Hazardous Drinking Group in People Aged 50 and Older in Europe	9
Profiles of Individuals with Cannabis-Related Disorders	9
Use of Project ECHO to Promote Evidence Based Care for Justice Involved Adults with Opioid use Disorder	9
Youth Risk Profiles and their Prediction of Distal Cannabis and Tobacco co-use in the Population Assessment of Tobacco Health (PATH)	8
Trends in Cannabis-Related Attitudes and Behaviors among Cannabis-Using Adolescent and Young Adult Outpatients following Medical Cannabis Legalization in Massachusetts	8
Return of the Quaaludes? Prolonged Agitated Delirium after Intentional Ingestion of the Methaqualone Analog SL-164 – a Case Report	8
The Feasibility and Safety of Training Patients in Opioid Treatment to Serve as Peer Recovery Support Service Interventionists	8
Factors Associated with Nurses’ Motivation to Provide Care for Patients with Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use-Related Problems	8
What Parents of Adolescents in Residential Substance Use Treatment Want from Continuing Care: A Content Analysis of Online Forum Posts	8
A Bridge Too Far? Distance to Waivered Physicians and Utilization of Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid use Disorder in West Virginia Medicaid	8
Until There's Nothing Left: Caregiver Resource Provision to Youth with Opioid use Disorders	8
Impact of the International Collaborative Addiction Medicine Research Fellowship on Physicians’ Future Engagement in Addiction Research	8
One Year Mortality of Patients Treated with Naloxone for Opioid Overdose by Emergency Medical Services	8
Sexual Enhancement Expectancy, Non-Medical use of Prescription Drugs, and Sexual Risk Behaviors in College Students	8
Co-use of Opioid Medications and Alcohol Prevention Study (COAPS)	8
Use of Electronic Cigarettes among U.S. Military Service Members – Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors	7
Familial Support in Integrated Treatment with Antiretroviral Therapy and Medications for Opioid use Disorder in Vietnam: A Qualitative Study	7
Commentary Article: Study Protocol for the Respond to Prevent Study: A Multi-State Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Provision of Naloxone, Buprenorphine and Nonprescription Syringes in Community	7
Perioperative Management of Extended-Release Buprenorphine: A Narrative Review and Case Series	7
Impact of Cuddler Service-Learning Program in Medical Student Education of Opioid use Disorder in Pregnancy and Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome	7
Are COVID-19 Health-Related and Socioeconomic Stressors associated with Increases in Cannabis use in Individuals who use Cannabis for Recreational Purposes?	7
Spice, Vulnerability, and Victimization: Synthetic Cannabinoids and Interpersonal Crime Victimization among Homeless Adults	7
Safety and Efficacy of a Digital Therapeutic for Substance use Disorder: Secondary Analysis of Data from a NIDA Clinical Trials Network Study	7
Opioid use during Pregnancy: An Analysis of Comment Data from the 2016 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey	7
Donepezil and Cognitive Remediation Therapy to Augment Treatment of Alcohol use Disorder Related Mild Cognitive Impairment (AUD-MCI): An Open Label Pilot Study with Historical Controls	7
Alcohol use Disorder in Active Duty Service Members: Incidence Rates over a 19-Year Period	7
Recovery Opioid Overdose Team (ROOT) Pilot Program Evaluation: A Community-Wide Post-Overdose Response Strategy	7
Gaps in Naloxone Ownership among People who Inject Drugs during the Fentanyl Wave of the Opioid Overdose Epidemic in New York City, 2018	7
Whose Opinion Matters about Medications for Opioid use Disorder? A Cross-Sectional Survey of Social Norms among Court Staff	6
Stigmatization of Medications for Opioid use Disorder in 12-Step Support Groups and Participant Responses	6
The Role of Executive Functioning Deficits in the Association between Substance-use-Related Stigma and Substance use Problems among Trauma-Exposed Individuals	6
The Impact of Access to Addiction Specialist on Attitudes, Beliefs and Hospital-Based Opioid Use Disorder Related Care: A Survey of Hospitalist Physicians	6
Legal Status of Recreational Cannabis and Self-Reported Substitution of Cannabis for Opioids or Prescription Pain Medication in Canada and the United States	6
System-Level Factors Shaping the Implementation of “Hub and Spoke” Systems to Expand MOUD in Rural Areas	6
Intervention in an Opioid Overdose Event Increases Interest in Treatment among Individuals with Opioid use Disorder	6
Clinical and Demographic Differences in the Willingness to use Self-Administered At-Home COVID-19 Testing Measures among Persons with Opioid use Disorder	6
Trust in Research Physicians as a Key Dimension of Randomized Controlled Trial Participation in Clinical Addictions Research	6
Internet use and Uptake of a Web-Based Prevention and Risk Reduction Intervention for Persons who use Drugs in New York City – Webhealth4Us Study (2013–2016)	6
Understanding Opioid Overdose Risk and Response Preparedness among People who use Cocaine and other Drugs: Mixed-Methods Findings from a Large, Multi-City Study	6
Secondary Effects of an Opioid-Focused Academic Detailing Program on Non-Opioid Controlled Substance Prescribing in Primary Care	6
Implementation and Evaluation of Primary Care Team Participation in Opioid Use Disorder Learning Sessions	6