OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Substance Abuse is 10. 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
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	67
Training Providers of People Who Use Drugs to Offer Hepatitis C Treatment: A Washington State Initiative	46
Perceived Impact of COVID-19 on Prevention, Treatment, Harm Reduction, and Recovery Services for Opioid use Disorder: National Survey of Local Health Departments	43
“Stories of starting”: Understanding the complex contexts of opioid misuse initiation	36
Balancing Need and Risk, Supply and Demand: Developing a Tool to Prioritize Naloxone Distribution	35
Mobile Phone and Internet use among People who Inject Drugs: Implications for Mobile Health Interventions	34
Associations Between Patient-Reported Experiences with Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Unmet Treatment Needs and Discontinuation Among Virginia Medicaid Members	33
Coverage of the Opioid Crisis in National Network Television News from 2000–2020: A Content Analysis	30
Perception of Pharmacy Students Toward Opioid-Related Disorders and Roles of Community Pharmacists: A French Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study	30
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	29
Commentary Article: Strategic Planning for Addiction Programs within Academic Medical Centers: Examples from the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine	29
Patients with Substance use Disorders Receiving Continued Care in Skilled Nursing Facilities following Hospitalization	29
Article Commentary: Increasing Evidence-Based Substance use Interventions Globally: The National Institute on Drug Abuse Postdoctoral Fellowships	28
Developing and Validating An Opioid Overdose Prevention and Response Curriculum for Undergraduate Medical Education	28
Multidisciplinary Treatment of Opioid use Disorder in Primary Care using the Collaborative Care Model	27
Awareness of Heated Tobacco Products among US Adults – Health Information National Trends Survey, 2020	27
Engagement in Perinatal Outpatient Services among Women in Recovery from Opioid use Disorders	27
“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	25
Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Home Delivery Laws during the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
Implementing Adolescent SBIRT: Findings from the FaCES Project	24
The Metropolitan Context of Substance use and Substance use Disorders among US Adults on Probation or Parole Supervision	24
Collaboration in a Time of Crisis: Adapting a Telementoring ECHO for Addiction Leaders during COVID-19	23
Predictors of Substance use Disorder Treatment Initiation and Engagement among Adolescents Enrolled in Medicaid	23
MIRRORS Program: Helping Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Families with Substance use Problems	23
Early Implementation of Screening for Substance use in Rural Primary Care: A Rapid Analytic Qualitative Study	22

Article Commentary: Physical Therapists Should Play a Greater Role in Managing Patients with Opioid use and Opioid Misuse	21
Evaluating ACGME-Accredited Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Online Content: A Critical Analysis of Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program Websites in the US	21
Effect of Regular Kratom (Mitragyna Speciosa Korth.) Use on Quality of Life of People who use Kratom	21
Implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) by Nurses on Acute Care Units: A Qualitative Descriptive Study	21
Adolescent Caffeine Consumption and Aggressive Behavior: A Longitudinal Assessment	20
Trait Mindfulness and Cannabis Use–Related Factors in Adolescents and Young Adults with Frequent Use	20
Feasibility and Acceptability of an Online ECHO Intervention to Expand access to Medications for Treatment of Opioid use Disorder, Psychosocial Treatments and Supports	19
Research Priorities for Expansion of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the Community Pharmacy	19
Leveraging Technology to Address Unhealthy Drug use in Primary Care: Effectiveness of the Substance use Screening and Intervention Tool (SUSIT)	19
A Systematic Literature Review and Narrative Synthesis of Effective Interventions for Family and Caregivers of People who use Methamphetamine	19
Case Report: Increasing the Frequency of Intramuscular Naltrexone Administration in a High Risk Patient with Opioid use Disorder	19
Pharmacists’ Stigma Toward Patients Engaged in Opioid Misuse: When “Social Distance” does not Mean Disease Prevention	19
Using Data Science to Improve Outcomes for Persons with Opioid use Disorder	18
Geographic Differences in Receipt of Addictions Treatment in a National Sample of Patients with Alcohol use Disorders from the U.S. Veterans Health Administration	18
Identifying Naloxone Administrations in Electronic Health Record Data using a Text-Mining Tool	18
Tobacco Quitline Engagement and Outcomes among Primary Care Patients Reporting use of Tobacco or Dual Tobacco and Cannabis: An Observational Study	18
Perspectives among Women Receiving Medications for Opioid use Disorder: Implications for Development of a Peer Navigation Intervention to Improve Access to Family Planning Services	18
“Narcan Encounters:” Overdose and Naloxone Rescue Experiences among People who use Opioids	18
Harms Versus Harms: Rethinking Treatment for Patients on Long-Term Opioids	18
The use and Impact of Self-Monitoring on Substance use Outcomes: A Descriptive Systematic Review	18
Personal and Professional Attitudes Associated with Nurses’ Motivation to Work with Patients with Opioid use and Opioid Use-Related Problems	17
A Hospital-Wide Initiative to Redesign Substance use Disorder Care: Impact on Pharmacotherapy Initiation	17
Understanding Barriers to Treatment among Individuals not Engaged in Treatment who Misuse Opioids: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach	17
Incoming Medical Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward People with Substance use Disorders: Implications for Curricular Training	17
A Rapid-Cycle Assessment Strategy for Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic in Local Communities	17
Improving Medical Students’ Attitude toward Patients with Substance use Problems through Addiction Medicine Education	16
Harmful Drinking, Tobacco, and Marijuana use in the 2000–2015 National Alcohol Surveys: Examining Differential Trends by Sexual Identity	16
Prevalence of Marijuana use among Trauma Patients before and after Legalization of Medical Marijuana: The Arizona Experience	16
“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
Rates of Prescription Orders for United States Active Duty Service Members Diagnosed with Alcohol use Disorder	15
Exploring the Association of State Policies and the Trajectories of Buprenorphine Prescriber Patient Caseloads	15
The “High Cost of Low Living”: Substance use Recovery among Older Formerly Homeless Adults	15
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	14
Prescription Drug Misuse, other Substance Use, and Sexual Identity: The Significance of Educational Status and Psychological Distress in US Young Adults	14
Care Practices of Mental Health Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners Within an Interdisciplinary Primary Care Model for Patients With Substance Use Disorders	14
Contextual Challenges in Police-Assisted Substance use Referral Programs: Impact of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter Movement	13
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	13
Impact of Stigmatizing Language Describing Opioid-Exposed Mother Infant Dyads: A Randomized Case Vignette Study	13
An Examination of how E-Cigarette/Cigarette use during Adolescence is Associated with Future use during the Third Trimester of Pregnancy	13
“The Assessment Really Helps you with the First Step in Recovery.” What do Clients Think Substance use Disorder Treatment Intake Assessments Should Look Like?	13
Sensitivity and Specificity of S2BI for Identifying Alcohol and Cannabis use Disorders among Adolescents Presenting for Primary Care	13
Erratum to Volume 44 Issue 1-2, January-April 2023	13
Latent Profile Analysis in Recovery Homes: A Single Quantitative Dimension Captures Most but Not All of the Important Details of the Recovery Process	13
Alcohol Trajectories and Subsequent Risk for Opioid Misuse in a Cohort of Urban Adolescents	13
Project CHOICE: Choosing Healthy Options in Coping with Emotions, an EMA/EMI Plus In-Person Intervention for Alcohol Use	13
How Essential is Kratom Availability and use during COVID-19? Use Pattern Analysis Based on Survey and Social Media Data	13
Regional and Temporal Effects of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Overdose Mortality	12
Impact of Extended Release Naltrexone on Health-Related Quality of Life in Individuals with Legal Involvement and Opioid use Disorders	12
Patient Acceptance of Naloxone Resulting from Targeted Intervention from Community Pharmacists to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Accidental Overdose	12

Relationship Between State Policies Targeting Unethical Treatment Practices and Opioid-Related Outcomes: An Event Study Analysis	11
Young Adult Perspectives on their Respiratory Health Symptoms Since Vaping	11
Exploring the Formation of Treatment Program Director Perceptions on Entry-Level Social Workers’ Substance use Treatment Capacities in New York	11
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	11
The Effects of Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Training on Health Professional Trainees’ Regard, Attitudes, and Beliefs toward Patients who use Substances	11
National Trends in Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder From 2007 to 2018	11
Effects of Smoking Marijuana on the Respiratory System: A Systematic Review	11
Understanding Sexual and Gender Minority Substance use through Latent Profiles of Ecological Systems	10
Increasing Preference for Fentanyl among a Cohort of People who use Opioids in Vancouver, Canada, 2017-2018	10
Article Commentary: Research Priorities for Expanding access to Methadone Treatment for Opioid use Disorder in the United States: A National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network Task Force	10
Rates of Discontinuation and Non-Publication of Trials for the Pharmacologic Treatment of Alcohol use Disorder	10
Policies regarding Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Professional Recovery Programs: A Scoping Review	10
Childhood Trauma and the Severity of past Suicide Attempts in Outpatients with Cocaine use Disorders	10
Predictors and Moderators of Response to Brief Interventions among Adolescents with Risky Alcohol and Marijuana Use	10
Opioid-Related Incident Severity and Emergency Medical Service Naloxone Administration by Sex in Massachusetts, 2013–2019	10
Interventions for Hospitalized Medical and Surgical Patients with Opioid use Disorder: A Systematic Review	10
Cardiac Surgeons’ Practices and Attitudes toward Addiction Care for Patients with Substance use Disorders	10
Management of Kratom Dependence with Buprenorphine/Naloxone in a Veteran Population	10
An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach for the Detection and Characterization of Illicit Drug-Dealing Comments and Interactions on Instagram	10