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International publications
Drug-related deaths and mortality in Europe: update from the EMCDDA expert network. Technical report.

EMCDDA (2021) Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

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Comparison of treatments for cocaine use disorder among adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Bentzley, Brandon S et al (2021) JAMA Network Open, 4, (5), e218049.

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Comparison of methods for alcohol and drug screening in primary care clinics.

McNeely J et al (2021) JAMA Network Open, 4, (5), e2110721

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The association between familial death in childhood or adolescence and subsequent substance use disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Syer S et al (2021) Addictive Behaviors, 120, 106936

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"I can't live like that": the experience of caregiver stress of caring for a relative with substance use disorder.

Maina G et al (2021) Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 16, (1), p. 11

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Guidelines for partnering with people with lived and living experience of substance use and their families and friends.

(2021) Ottawa: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.

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Toolkit for practitioners supporting families affected by someone else's co-occurring mental ill-health and substance misuse conditions (dual diagnosis).

(2021) London: Adfam.

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Overcoming stigma: online learning.

(2021) Ottawa: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction

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Stigmatization of people with alcohol use disorders: an updated systematic review of population studies.

Kilian C et al (2021) Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, Early online

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“Nothing to mourn, He was just a drug addict” - stigma towards people bereaved by drug-related death.

Dyregrov K & Bruland Selseng L (2021) Addiction Research & Theory.

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Parents with alcohol and drug problems: guidance for adult treatment and children and family services.

Public Health England (2021) London: Gov.UK

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. FASD factsheets

Adoption UK in Scotland (2021) Banbury: Adoption UK

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Outcomes of excessive alcohol drinkers without baseline evidence of chronic liver disease after 15 years follow-up: Heavy burden of cancer and liver disease mortality.

Bernardo S et al (2021) PLoS ONE, 16, (5), e0252218.

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5 facts about alcohol and cancer.

(2021) Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

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Exploring the effect of alcohol on disease activity and outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis through systematic review and meta-analysis.

Turk J et al (2021) Scientific Reports, 11, (1), 10474.

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Alcohol marketing versus public health: David and Goliath?

Madden, Mary & McCambridge, Jim (2021) Globalization and Health, 17, (1), p.45.

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Preventing harmful alcohol use.

OECD (2021) OECD Health Policy Studies Paris: OECD Publishing.

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No safe level of alcohol consumption for brain health: observational cohort study of 25,378 UK Biobank participants.

Topiwala A et al (2021)  medRXiv, Early online. (Submitted)

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Impact of minimum unit pricing on alcohol purchases in Scotland and Wales: controlled interrupted time series analyses.

Anderson, Peter et al (2021) The Lancet Public Health, Early online.

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What are the economic costs to society attributable to alcohol use? A systematic review and modelling study.

Manthey J et al (2021) PharmacoEconomics, Early online.

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Causal mechanisms proposed for the alcohol harm paradox-a systematic review.

Boyd, Jennifer et al (2021) Addiction, Early online.

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Accommodation-based interventions for individuals experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, homelessness.

Keenan C et al (2021) Campbell Systematic Reviews, 17, (2), e1165.

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Efficacy of phytocannabinoids in epilepsy treatment: novel approaches and recent advances.

Farrelly AM et al (2021) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, (8), 3993.

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Self-blinding citizen science to explore psychedelic microdosing.

Szigeti et al (2021) eLife, 10, e62878

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Trends and characteristics of manufactured cannabis product and cannabis plant product exposures reported to US poison control centers, 2017-2019.

. Dilley JA et al (2021) JAMA Network Open, 4, (5), e2110925.

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Cannabis legalisation: a global change.

Transform Drug Policy Foundation (2021) Transform Blog.

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An initial analysis of the UK Medical Cannabis Registry: outcomes analysis of first 129 patients.

Erridge S et al (2021) Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, Early online.

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A mini-review of relationships between cannabis use and neural foundations of reward processing, inhibitory control and working memory.

Morie, KP & Potenza MN (2021) Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 657371.

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Prevalence of medical cannabis use and associated health conditions documented in electronic health records among primary care patients in Washington State.

Matson, Theresa E et al (2021) JAMA Network Open, 4, (5), e219375.

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Illegal drugs in the UK: Is it time for considered legalisation to improve public health?

Dalgarno P et al (2021) Drug Science, Policy and Law, Early online.

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Is Europe facing an opioid epidemic: what does European monitoring data tell us?

Thomas et al (2021) European Journal of Pain, 25, (5), pp.1072-1080.

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Reducing drug-use harms among higher education students: MyUSE contextual-behaviour change digital intervention development using the Behaviour Change Wheel.

Vasilisou VS et al (2021) Harm Reduction Journal, 18, (1).

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Association of opioid consumption profiles after hospitalization with risk of adverse health care events.

Kurteva S et al (2021) JAMA Network Open, 4, (5), e218782.

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Recommended scope for NPS testing in the United States. Based on trends observed in Q1 2021.

Krotulski A et al (2021) Arizona: Society of Forensic Toxicologists.

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Perspectives on drugs. Wastewater analysis and drugs — a European multi-city study.

(2021) Lisbon: EMCDDA.

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Desistance from criminalisation: police culture and new directions in drugs policing.

Bacon M (2021) Policing and Society.

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The epidemiology of mescaline use: Pattern of use, motivations for consumption, and perceived consequences, benefits, and acute and enduring subjective effects.

Uthaug M et al (2021) Journal of Psychopharmacology, Early online, 2698811211013583.

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Self-detoxification, embodiment and masculinity: a qualitative analysis of dependent heroin users’ experiences of coming off drugs in prison.

Walmsley, Ian (2021) Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy.

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Is disinvestment from alcohol and drug treatment services associated with treatment access, completions and related harm? An analysis of English expenditure and outcomes data.

Roscoe S et al (2021) Drug and Alcohol Review, Early online.

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Parents with alcohol and drug problems: using case studies to estimate the cost-benefit of interventions.

Public Health England (2021) London: Gov.UK.

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Priority given to technology in government-based mental health and addictions vision and strategy documents: systematic policy review.

Lal S et al (2021) Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23, (5), e25547.

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Drug fatalities and treatment fatalism: complicating the ageing cohort theory.

Dennis, Fay (2021) Sociology of Health & Illness, Early online.

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Review of the medically supervised injecting room

(2020) Melbourne: Department of Health and Human Services.

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Exploring drug supply, associated violence and exploitation of vulnerable groups in Denmark. Technical report.

Friis Søgaard, Thomas et al (2021) Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

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Reduction in the population prevalence of hepatitis C virus viraemia among people who inject drugs associated with scale-up of direct-acting anti-viral therapy in community drug services: real-world data

Palmateer, Norah E et al (2021) Addiction, Early online.

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World health statistics 2021: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals.

WHO (2021) Geneva: World Health Organization

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Report from the Commission - Directive 2014/40/EU concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and rel

Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions (2021) Brussels: European Commission.

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Mixed-methods economic evaluation of the implementation of tobacco treatment programs in National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers.

Salloum, Ramzi G et al (2021) Implementation Science Communications, 2, (1), p.41.

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Smoking and health 2021: a coming of age for tobacco control.

(2021) London: Royal College of Physicians.

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Promoting convergence and closing gaps: a blueprint for the revision of the European Union Tobacco Tax Directive.

López-Nicolás Á and Branston JR (2021) Tobacco Control, Early online.

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Reward-related decision-making deficits in internet gaming disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Yao, Yuan-Wei et al (2021) Addiction, Early online.

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