OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Drugs-Education Prevention and Policy is 3. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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