OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Drugs-Education Prevention and Policy is 1. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Nonmedical prescription drug use among female adolescents: the relative influence of maternal factors, social norms, and perceptions of risk and availability	25
Is start time a risk factor for amounts consumed on a given day if drinking duration is taken into account? An event-level study	23
Exploring hidden risks and empowerment in women’s acquisition of medicinal cannabis from illegal markets: a qualitative study	16
Just have this come from their prescription pad: the medicalization of safer supply from the perspectives of health planners in BC, Canada	15
Cannabis users andHomo Sovieticus. Stigma, culture, and delegitimization in Riga, Latvia	15
“They’re doing it anyway, let’s have a conversation about it”: exploring student and stakeholder attitudes towards drug education programmes for university students	14
The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents	13
Prevalence and associated factors of binge drinking among high school students in Acapulco, Mexico: a cross-sectional study	13
Tobacco, e-cigarette and alcohol content in popular UK soap operas: a content analysis to explore changes in social norms and scene location	12
A continuum model of alcohol use and problems can advance public health goals without undermining treatment agendas. Reply to commentaries	11
Impact of participation in a peer-led overdose program for people who use drugs	10
Diversion or death? The moral framework shaping bifurcated punishments for drug offences in Indonesia	10
Police officer perceptions towards drug liberalization policies in the context of an overdose crisis in British Columbia, Canada	10
Professional education to reduce provider stigma toward harm reduction and pharmacotherapy	9
Harnessing the global expertise in drug use and drug prevention in physical activity settings: results from the Anabolic Steroid Prevention Survey	9
Accurate yet problematic: the divided sentiments regarding brain-based addiction by professionals in the Finnish service system	8
User perspectives on outreach opioid substitution treatment among street-entrenched people who use drugs in Denmark	8
Media constructions of an illegal drug: the link between cannabis and organized crime in Swedish newspapers	8
Cultural stigmatization and police corruption: cannabis, gender, and legalization in Mexico	8
Police officers’ perceptions of their role at overdose events: a qualitative study	8
“Hooked on the needle”: Exploring the paradoxical attractions towards injecting drug use	8
The influence of individual and cultural factors on perceptions of alcohol control strategies among university students in Europe	7
Music festival attendees’ transport mode and beliefs about alcohol and illicit drug use before driving in Victoria, Australia	7
Reinforcing the abstinence ideal: criminal justice developments	7
“Like the first time, all over again”: sex, relationships, and risk for relapse to substance use after release from prison	7

Associations between mental illness and non-medical use of prescription opioids among a sample of people who use drugs in Australia and New Zealand	7
‘I crave not to feel uncomfortable’ – investigating craving for opioids and cannabis among individuals with chronic pain	7
Needle exchange practitioners accounts of delivering harm reduction advice for chemsex: implications for policy and practice	7
Magazines as contradictory spaces for alcohol messaging: a mixed method content and thematic analysis of UK women’s magazine representations of alcohol and its consumption	6
Exploring women’s intentions to seek medicinal cannabis prescriptions in New Zealand using the theory of planned behaviour	6
A multi-country analysis of informal caregiving due to others’ drinking	6
Exploring the process of care for people who inject drugs in hospital settings	6
Mechanisms and mediators of addiction recovery	6
Critically explaining British policy responses to novel psychoactive substances using the policy constellations framework	6
“I knew it was different there”: a qualitative study of the motivations and risks of drug policy migrants going to Denmark from Sweden	6
Expected and actual responses to minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol of people drinking at harmful levels in Scotland	5
Comparative analysis of policy responses to residential methamphetamine contamination by two public housing authorities in the United States and New Zealand	5
Strategies to prevent and reduce gambling harm in Australian women	5
Analyzing agency and identity navigation in addiction stories by drawing on actor-network theory and narrative positioning analysis	5
‘We are the first responders’: overdose response experiences and perspectives among peers in British Columbia	5
‘I cannot stop taking weed cos it makes me survive’: cannabis use, criminal sanctions and users’ experiences in Nigeria	4
Recovering assemblages: unfolding sociomaterial relations of drug use and recovery	4
Reconfiguring Drinking Cultures, Gender, and Transgressive Selves	4
Drug policy	4
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on tobacco and nicotine use among young adults identified as sexual and gender minorities: a mixed methods approach	4
What can we know about legal minors who inject drugs? Exploring register data in three high-income countries	4
Race/ethnicity and contexts: associations of racial/ethnic discrimination with underage youth’s alcohol use and drinking contexts	4
Effects on secondary outcomes of the Brazilian version of the European unplugged drug use prevention program: drug knowledge, intention predictors, and life skill competencies	4
Correction	4
Drug market risk environment and navigational strategies of street-level dealers in Nigeria	4
Values in drug policy documents: applying Schwartz’s values theory to the report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’ (NSW)	4
Law, drugs and the politics of childhood: from protection to punishment	4
Perspectives of community leaders/members on factors hindering alcohol regulation in Nigeria	4
Substance use, end-of-life care and multiple deprivation: practice and research, Substance use, end-of-life care and multiple deprivation: practice and research , by Gar	3
Liberal moralities and drug policy reform	3
Recovery capital in the context of homelessness, high levels of alcohol consumption, and adverse significant life events	3
“It’s called homophobia baby” exploring LGBTQ + substance use and treatment experiences in the UK	3
The experiences of family members attending an online addiction education program: a qualitative study	3
Challenges recruiting men with a desire to cease anabolic-androgenic steroid use to a pilot involving hormone therapy intervention	3
Inadequate needle and syringe coverage among people who inject psychoactive drugs across England and Wales	3
Characteristics of affected family members seeking treatment in their own right: a secondary analysis of existing Irish health data for 2010–2020	3
Qualitative study of patients’ decisions to initiate injectable depot buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: the role of information and other factors	3
Cannabis criminology: inequality, coercion, and illusions of reform	3
Exploring public preferences for alcohol risk communication	3
A longitudinal study of behavioural outcomes following a visit to the Boom Festival 2018 drug checking service: individual and group level results	3
Alcohol industry discourses about LGBTQ+ communities: genuine allies or partners for profit?	3
Drug use and unsafe injection among adults who live in prisons in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
User perceptions of long-term costs and benefits of MDMA use: findings from a large online sample	3
Exploring men’s alcohol consumption in the context of becoming a father: a scoping review	3
Physicians’ attitudes towards medical cannabis: a survey from Uruguay	3
Patient satisfaction with long-acting injectable buprenorphine: What needs to be measured from the patient’s perspective?	3
Accessing drug treatment programs in Atlantic Canada: the experiences of people who use substances	3
Personal strengths and resources that people use in their recovery from persistent substance use disorder	3
The role of UK alcohol and drug (AOD) nurses in a changing workforce	2
Developing a realist theory of community-based residential substance use treatment	2

Being and becoming a father in the context of heavy drinking and other substance use—a qualitative evidence synthesis	2
‘The general concept is a safer use approach’: how image and performance enhancing drug coaches negotiate safety through community care	2
Online Doping: The Digital Ecosystem and Cyborgification of Drug Cultures	2
Local government officials’ account of barriers to regulating physical availability of alcohol in Nigeria	2
Alcohol use during recovery: A 10-year follow-up of people treated for alcohol or other drug problems	2
Studying moralities in drug policy: An editorial introduction	2
Morality boundary work in the making of the needle and syringe exchange program in Stockholm	2
Moral disengagement and the harms of cocaine use	2
Implementing injectable opioid agonist treatment: a survey of professionals in the field of opioid use disorders	2
What can Jane Goodall teach us about addiction?	2
“Emerging anabolic androgenic steroid markets; the prominence of social media”	2
Cannabis education resources for parents: an environmental scan and critical content analysis in the context of legalization	2
A psilocybin haven: the use of comparison to legitimate transgression at a psychedelic retreat	2
Effectiveness of online training for improving knowledge, attitudes, and confidence of alcohol and other drug workers in relation to co-occurring mental health conditions	2
Psychoanalyst attitudes towards psychedelic-assisted therapy	2
If cannabis use is increasing among workers what are the implications for policy? A secondary analysis of a nationally representative Australian dataset	2
Sexualized drug use, risky sexual behaviors, and prevention strategies among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men	2
Correction	2
Procedural fairness and perceived legitimacy and justice of anti-doping proceedings: a mixed Methods International Study	2
Identifying innovative approaches to the temporal availability of alcohol in Great Britain—a policy analysis	2
Correction	2
Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery AssemblageBecoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery Assemblage, by Lena Theodoropoulou, Abingdon and New York: Routledge,	2
Drug risk perception and risk management strategies among Israeli functioning drug users: a qualitative exploration	2
A qualitative investigation of women’s experiences of drug use at university and needs within university drug harm reduction services	2
‘Sustaining masculinity’: a scoping review of anabolic androgenic steroid use by older males	2
Implementation of alcohol minimum unit pricing (MUP): a qualitative study with small retailers	2
Patterns of opioid misuse initiation among African-Americans	2
Reviewing the anti-doping policy of India: missing the wood for the trees?	2
Inhaling thick smoke: cannabis subculture, community forming and socio-structural challenges in Nigeria	2
A day at the races: youth alcohol use before and during a large public event	1
If you find me on the floor, stick some sugar in my mouth : The social production (and protection) of insulin risk among IPED communities	1
Developing strategic foresight for drug policy: trends, scenarios, and implications	1
Virtuous drug use in the neoliberal age	1
Alcohol consumption among UK football supporters: investigating the contested field of the football carnivalesque	1
How injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) care could be improved? service providers and stakeholders’ perspectives	1
‘It’s T-shirt feminism’: exploring women’s perceptions of the appropriation of feminist messaging in alcohol brand marketing	1
‘Saving the youth’: Children and young people as moral subjects in the Philippines’ punitive drug regime	1
Anabolic androgenic steroid use population size estimation: a first stage study utilising a Delphi exercise	1
Citizens’ juries and their role in improved alcohol policy: damp squib, or useful tool?	1
“They are survivors”. Violence against women drug users: a qualitative analysis of the professionals’ narratives	1
The co-production of shifting intoxications: synthetic cannabinoids, stigma, risk and harm	1
Atmospheres of craving: a relational understanding of the desire to use drugs	1
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst: examining the preloading motivations associated with alcohol use and past harms during a night-out	1
Anti-Doping research: What is left to do?	1
Thinking and drinking: associations between momentary thoughts and alcohol consumption during COVID-19 lockdown	1
Challenging public stigma: the impact of a statewide social media campaign to reduce opioid use disorder stigma	1
Prevention of alcohol-related suicide: a rapid review	1
Unhealthy substance use among unaccompanied refugees in Germany	1
Culture matters! Changes in the global landscape of cannabis	1
The stigma-vulnerability nexus and the framing of drug problems	1
‘It’s like a safety haven’: considerations for the implementation of managed alcohol programs in Scotland	1
The social organization of structural vulnerability among people who are homeless and use drugs: an institutional ethnography	1
‘Why don’t we just build it in a square hole?’: developing a multi-component drug outreach service for young people aged 16–25 in England	1
Consumer protection messages in alcohol marketing on Twitter in Ireland: a content analysis	1
Neither laissez-faire nor prohibition: the khat regulation policy preferences of people who chew khat and local social service providers in Ethiopia	1
Socio-demographic, health and drug use characteristics among people with different frequency patterns of cannabis use in Brazil	1
Exploring patterns of polysubstance use among young adults: a latent profile analysis	1
Language preferences and impact of labels on the lived experience of people who use heroin	1
South Asian women’s experiences of alcohol use and the role of the family	1
Prevalence of alcohol’s harm to others in the context of changing alcohol control policies in Lithuania in 2015 and 2020	1
Exploring medicinal use of low-THC cannabis products - Comparing experienced effects and side-effects between CBD-oil-only users to users of high-THC cannabis products	1
The Psychedelic Social Club: a regulatory concept for people who use psychedelics?	1
Difficulties for practice and multiple continua need more recognition: Commentary on Morris et al. “Should we promote alcohol problems as a continuum? Implications for policy and practice”	1
Addressing the unique needs for anti-doping and clean-sport education of para-athletes and athlete-support personnel: an international Delphi study	1
Safe beats down under: investigating the support of drug checking at a regional festival in the Northern Territory, Australia	1
How many children live with persons with problematic drinking patterns across 19 European countries?	1
Should we promote alcohol problems as a continuum? Implications for policy and practice	1
Participant experiences with Supporting Addiction Affected Families Effectively (SAFE): a qualitative study of the 5-Step method in Goa, India	1
Fitness professionals’ perceptions of acceptability and usability of anti-doping education tools for recreational sports	1
‘I’ve gone from one extreme to the other’: critical junctures in relationships with alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Implementation facilitators and barriers to the expansion of a peer-led overdose prevention program	1
Intoxication. Self, State and Society *Intoxication. Self, State and Society* , by Thomas Thurnell-Reed and Ma	1
Mechanisms of impact of alcohol availability interventions from the perspective of 63 diverse alcohol licensing stakeholders: a qualitative interview study	1
‘I don’t know what we should have done differently’: A qualitative study on the dilemmas of ‘tough love’ and toxic drugs in British Columbia, Canada	1
Improving the effectiveness and inclusiveness of alcohol and other drug outreach models for young people: a literature review	1
“Availability is the poor cousin of marketing and pricing”: qualitative study of stakeholders’ views on policy priorities around tobacco and alcohol availability	1
Drinking to cope as a mediator of the relationship between stress and alcohol outcomes	1
A qualitative study examining the experiences of people who use drugs in supportive housing in London, Ontario	1
Women in transgression: why we still need to move beyond traditional gender roles in policy surrounding women who undertake substance use and sex work	1
Rethinking intoxicated sexual encounters	1