OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy is 7. 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
Quadruple pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder tolerable yet insufficient: a case report	65
Exploring e-psychonauts perspectives towards cocaine effects and toxicity	62
Shared decision-making and client-reported dose satisfaction in a longitudinal cohort receiving injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT)	41
Harm reduction and recovery services support (HRRSS) to mitigate the opioid overdose epidemic in a rural community	39
Cross-analyzing addiction specialist and patient opinions and experiences about addictive disorder screening in primary care to identify interaction-related obstacles: a qualitative study	38
Residential and inpatient treatment of substance use disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	31
20 years of Portuguese drug policy - developments, challenges and the quest for human rights	30
Harmonizing healthcare and other resource measures for evaluating economic costs in substance use disorder research	28
Personal recovery for special populations: a qualitative study exploring the role of special interest meetings within 12-step fellowships	26
An emergency-department-initiated outreach program for patients with opioid use disorder is associated with an increase in agonist therapy and engagement in addictions care: a one-year cohort study	25
Promoting sustainable responses to the US opioid epidemic with community-academic partnerships: qualitative outcomes from a statewide program	23
Delphi method applicability in drug foresight	21
Evaluation of post-discharge engagement for emergency department patients with opioid use history who received telehealth recovery coaching services	21
“Sometimes you have to take the person and show them how”: adapting behavioral activation for peer recovery specialist-delivery to improve methadone treatment retention	21
Patients’ goals when initiating long-acting injectable buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder: findings from a longitudinal qualitative study	20
Understanding injecting drug use in Afghanistan: A scoping review	19
Correction to: Investigating the factor structure of a translated recovery-orientation instrument in inpatient treatment for substance use disorder	19
Sweden’s first Take-Home Naloxone program: participant characteristics, dose endpoints and predictors for overdose reversals	18
Health service engagement, side effects and concerns among men with anabolic-androgenic steroid use: a cross-sectional Norwegian study	18
Opioid legislation and narcotic filling in total hip arthroplasty: descriptive study of time and state-level trends in the United States	17
What features of drug treatment programs help, or not, with access? a qualitative study of the perspectives of family members and community-based organization staff in Atlantic Canada	17
The relationship between family intimacy and relapse tendency among people who use drugs: a moderated mediation model	17
Liver stiffness and associated risk factors among people with a history of injecting drugs: a prospective cohort study	17
Barriers of linkage to HCV viremia testing among people who inject drugs in Georgia	16
Factors influencing the provision of care for Inuit in a mainstream residential addiction rehabilitation centre in Southern Canada, an instrumental case study into cultural safety	16

Estimating the impact of neonatal abstinence system interventions on Medicaid: an incremental cost analysis	16
How to prevent alcohol and illicit drug use among students in affluent areas: a qualitative study on motivation and attitudes towards prevention	15
Differences in addiction and recovery gains according to gender – gender barriers and specific differences in overall strengths growth	15
Exploring the effectiveness of dextroamphetamine for the treatment of stimulant use disorder: a qualitative study with patients receiving injectable opioid agonist treatment	15
Patient perspectives on depot buprenorphine treatment for opioid addiction – a qualitative interview study	14
Enhancing the drug addiction treatment service by introducing a new residential treatment model in the Philippines: A qualitative study	14
Building an inpatient addiction medicine consult service in Sudbury, Canada: preliminary data and lessons learned in the era of COVID-19	14
Engaging youth as leaders and partners can improve substance use prevention: a call to action to support youth engagement practice and research	13
“The DEA would come in and destroy you”: a qualitative study of fear and unintended consequences among opioid prescribers in WV	13
Gender disparities in opioid treatment progress in methadone versus counseling	13
Access to tablet injectable opioid agonist therapy in rural and smaller urban settings in British Columbia, Canada: a qualitative study	12
Patient perceptions of facilitators and barriers to reducing hazardous alcohol use among people living with HIV in East Africa	12
Knowledge and experience of Kazakhstan athletes in anti-doping and the impact of past educational intervention	12
A qualitative exploration of daily path and daily routine among people in Ukraine who inject drugs to understand associated harms	11
Exploratory mixed methods analysis of self-authored content from participants in a digital alcohol intervention trial	11
Prevalence, correlates, and reasons for substance use among adolescents aged 10–17 in Ghana: a cross-sectional convergent parallel mixed-method study	11
Challenges in substance use treatment as perceived by professionals and Arabic-speaking refugees in Germany	11
Key person-centered care domains for residential substance use disorder treatment facilities: former clients’ perspectives	10
Interdisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of alcohol use disorders in a general hospital department: a mixed-method study	10
Correction to: Linkage to hepatitis C treatment in two opioid substitution treatment units in Gothenburg, Sweden: a retrospective cohort study	10
Sex-related inequalities in current cigarette smoking among adolescents in Africa	10
Cannabis use characteristics and associations with problematic use outcomes, quitting-related factors, and mental health among US young adults	10
A UK national study of prevalence and correlates of adopting or not adopting a recovery identity among individuals who have overcome a drug or alcohol problem	10
Association between toxic drug events and encephalopathy in British Columbia, Canada: a cross-sectional analysis	10
Alcohol use disorder among people diagnosed with tuberculosis in a large urban case-finding project in central Uganda: prevalence, associated factors and challenges to treatment adherence	10
Technology-based interventions for tobacco smoking prevention and treatment: a 20-year bibliometric analysis (2003–2022)	9
Certificate-of-need laws and substance use treatment	9
Staff preferences towards electronic data collection from a national take-home naloxone program: a cross-sectional study	9
Missed opportunity for alcohol use disorder screening and management in primary health care facilities in northern rural Tanzania: a cross-sectional survey	9
Stimulant use disorder diagnosis and opioid agonist treatment dispensation following release from prison: a cohort study	9
Perceived healthcare stigma among patients in opioid substitution treatment: a qualitative study	9
Medicaid professional fees for treatment of opioid use disorder varied widely across states and were substantially below fees paid by medicare in 2021	9
Trauma exposure across the lifespan among individuals engaged in treatment with medication for opioid use disorder: differences by gender, PTSD status, and chronic pain	8
Gender differences in physical morbidity in opioid agonist treatment patients: population-based cohort studies from the Czech Republic and Norway	8
Healthcare seeking among Swedish patients in opioid substitution treatment – a mixed methods study on barriers and facilitators	8
Alcohol use during pregnancy in post-conflict northern Uganda: pregnant women’s experiences and provider perceptions	8
Patterns of service utilization among youth with substance use service need: a cohort study	8
Daily cannabis use during the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Canada: a repeated cross-sectional study from May 2020 to December 2020	8
HealthCare educational differences in pain management, adverse childhood experiences and their relationship to substance use disorder education	8
Experiences of and recommendations for LGBTQ+-affirming substance use services: an exploratory qualitative descriptive study with LGBTQ+ people who use opioids and other drugs	8
Tailoring services in opioid treatment programs for patients involved in America’s criminal justice system: national associations and variation by state and Medicaid expansion status	8
Implementation of ask-advise-connect for smoking cessation in Dutch general practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods evaluation using the CFIR framework	7
Understanding youth and young adult cannabis use in Canada post-legalization: a scoping review on a public health issue	7
Perspectives of illicit marijuana growers and traders on commercial legalisation of marijuana in South Africa: considerations for policy formulation	7
Strategies to promote the implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in healthcare settings: a scoping review	7
Exploring indicators of natural recovery from alcohol and drug use problems: findings from the life in recovery survey in Flanders	7
Effectively engaging faith-based leaders on syringe services programs: U.S. pastors’ knowledge, perceptions, and questions	7
The impact of PSTD on service access among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada	7
Medical conditions of primary care patients with documented cannabis use and cannabis use disorder in electronic health records: a case control study from an academic health system in a medical mariju	7
A cluster-randomized trial of a brief multi-component intervention to improve tobacco outcomes in substance use treatment	7

Associations between childbirth, gang exposure and substance use among young women in Cape Town, South Africa	7
Socioeconomic correlates of incident and fatal opioid overdose among Swedish people with opioid use disorder	7
The “black box” of treatment: Patients’ perspective on what works in opioid maintenance treatment for opioid dependence	7