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International publications
What is a public health approach to substance use? A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis.

Crépault, Jean-François et al (2023) International Journal of Drug Policy, 112. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.103958

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The association between maternal and paternal substance use and child substance use, internalizing and externalizing problems: a systematic review and meta-analysis

McGovern, Ruth et al (2023) Addiction, Early online, doi: 10.1111/add.16127

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Neuroscientific basis of treatment for substance use disorders

Bozkurt, Müge (2022) Noro Psikiyatri Arsivi, 59, (Suppl 1), S75-S80. doi: 10.29399/npa.28172

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A systematic review of qualitative research on substance use among refugees

Saleh, Ebtesam A et al (2023) Addiction, 118, (2), pp. 218-253. doi: 10.1111/add.16021

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Substance misuse treatment for adults: statistics 2021 to 2022

(2023) London: Office for Health Improvement & Disparities.

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Individual factors predict substance use treatment course patterns among patients in community-based substance use disorder treatment.

Argyriou, Evangelia et al (2023) PLoS ONE, 18, (1). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280407

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What factors are associated with self-harm in childhood? Learning from review-level evidence.

Buckton, CH et al (2023) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland.

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Profiles of quality of outpatient care use, associated sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and adverse outcomes among patients with substance-related disorders.

Fleury, Marie-Josée et al (2023) Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 18. doi: 10.1186/s13011-022-00511-0

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The predictive validity of the Alcohol Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) for moderate-to-high risk cannabis, methamphetamine and opioid use after release from prison

Cumming, Craig et al (2023) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.16138 (In Press)

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An examination of the reliability and validity of the recovery capital questionnaire (RCQ).

Burns, John and Yates, Rowdy (2022) Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 232. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109329

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What is drug checking, anyway?

Barratt, Monica J and Measham, Fiona (2022) Drugs, Habits and Social Policy, 23, (3), pp. 176-187. doi.org/10.1108/DHS-01-2022-0007

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'We don't live in a harm reduction world, we live in a prohibition world': tensions arising in the design of drug alerts.

Volpe, Isabelle et al (2023) Harm Reduction Journal, 20, 3. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00716-3

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Party Panel: developing theory- and evidence-based health promotion in nightlife settings. Monitoring drug use in the digital age: studies in web surveys.

Ygram Peters, et al (2023) Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

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Police stops to reduce crime: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Petersen, Kevin et al (2023) Campbell Systematic Reviews, 19, (1). doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1302

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Law-abiding criminals: young adults’ drift into and out of recreational drug sales.

Friss Sogaard, Thomas and Højlund Bræmer, Marie (2023) Nordic Journal of Criminology, 24, (1), pp. 1-17

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Global report on trafficking in persons 2022

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2023) New York: United Nations

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HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2022 – 2021 data

European Centre for Disease Prevention, WHO Regional Office for Europe. (2022) Stockholm: ECDC

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Laying the foundations for hepatitis C elimination: evaluating the development and contribution of community care pathways to diagnostic efforts.

Robinson, Emma et al (2023) BMC Public Health, 23. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14911-1

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Adolescents' own views on their risk behaviors, and the potential effects of being labeled as risk-takers: a commentary and review

Defoe, Ivy N et al (2022) Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.945775

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Cognitive training and remediation interventions for substance use disorders: a Delphi consensus study.

Verdejo-Garcia, Antonio et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.16109

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WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence: forty-fourth report.

(2022) Geneva: World Health Organization

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Legal environment scan: a drug user-led monitoring toolkit of legal and policy framework.

(2023) London: International Network of People who Use Drugs.

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A review of synthetic cathinones emerging in recent years (2019-2022).

Kuropka, Patryk et al (2023) Forensic Toxicology, 41. pp. 25-46. doi.org/10.1007/s11419-022-00639-5

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New potent synthetic opioid— N-Desethyl Isotonitazene —proliferating among recreational drug supply in USA.

(2023) Pennsylvania: Center for Forensic Science Research & Education

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Drug Deaths Taskforce response: a cross Government approach.

Population Health Directorate. (2023) Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

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Evaluating the population-level effects of overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites in British Columbia, Canada: controlled interrupted time series.

Panagiotoglou, Dimitra (2022) PLoS ONE, 17, (3). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265665

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The risk matrix: drug-related deaths in prisons in England and Wales, 2015-2020

Duke, Karen et al (2023) Journal of Community Psychology, Early online. doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22989

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Mortality risk following nonfatal injuries with alcohol use disorder involvement: a one-year follow-up of emergency department patients using linked administrative data

Goldman-Mellor, Sidra et al (2022) Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 83, (6), pp. 879-887. doi.org/10.15288/jsad.21-00444

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Suicidal crisis among children and young people: associations with adverse childhood experiences and socio-demographic factors.

Ashworth, Emma et al (2023) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, (2). doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021251

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A national strategy for preventing substance and opioid use disorders through evidence-based prevention programming that fosters healthy outcomes in our youth.

Fishbein, Diana H and Sloboda, Zili (2022) Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, pp. 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10567-022-00420-5

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Long-term recovery from opioid use disorder: recovery subgroups, transition states and their association with substance use, treatment and quality of life.

Craft, William H et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.16115

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Safety and feasibility of intranasal heroin-assisted treatment: 4-week preliminary findings from a Swiss multicentre observational study.

Vogel, Marc et al (2023) Harm Reduction Journal, 20. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00731-y

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Cannabis use in pregnancy and maternal and infant outcomes: a Canadian cross-jurisdictional population-based cohort study.

Luke, Sabrina et al (2022) PLoS ONE, 17, (11). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276824

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Increase in cannabis-related emergency department presentations in the period immediately before legalization requires explanation.

Smyth, Bobby P and McCarron, Peter (2023) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.16128 (In press)

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Contingency management for treatment of cannabis use disorder in co-occurring mental health disorders: a systematic review.

Rodas, Justyne D et al (2022) Brain Sciences, 13, (1). doi: 10.3390/brainsci13010036

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Mental health and cannabis use among Canadian youth: Integrated findings from cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.

Butler, Alexandra et al (2022) International Journal of Drug Policy, 112. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103926

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Recreational cannabis legalization has had limited effects on a wide range of adult psychiatric and psychosocial outcomes.

Zellers, Stephanie M et al (2023) Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.1017/S0033291722003762

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Linking medicinal cannabis to autotaxin–lysophosphatidic acid signaling.

Eymery, Mathias C et al (2023) Life Science Alliance, 6, (2). doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202201595

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Assessment of clinical outcomes of medicinal cannabis therapy for depression: analysis from the UK Medical Cannabis Registry.

Mangoo, Sajed et al (2023) Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, Early online. pp. 1-14. doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2022.2161894

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The association between early onset of alcohol, smokeless tobacco and marijuana use with adult binge drinking in United States

Dai, Zheng and Wang, Kesheng (2023) Scientific Reports, 13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-27571-x

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Canada’s guidance on alcohol and health: final report.

Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines Scientific Expert Panels. Paradis, Catherine et al (2023) Ottawa: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction

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Minimum unit pricing evaluation bringing the evidence together stakeholder engagement report

(2023) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland.

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Minimum unit alcohol pricing. Impacts on the alcoholic drinks industry in Scotland: final report

(2023) London: Frontier Economics

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Like a needle in a vineyard: searching for health information on wine labels and websites.

(2022) Glasgow: Alcohol Focus Scotland

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Health and cancer risks associated with low levels of alcohol consumption.

Anderson, Benjamin O et al (2023) The Lancet Public Health, 8, (1), e6-e7. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00317-6

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Alcohol consumption in the workplace: a comparison between European Union countries' policies.

Borrelli, Ivan et al (2022) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, (24). doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416964

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Acceptability and feasibility of wearable transdermal alcohol sensors: systematic review.

Brobbin, Eileen et al (2022) JMIR Human Factors, 9, (4). doi: 10.2196/40210

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Alcohol withdrawal produces changes in excitability, population discharge probability, and seizure threshold

Alberto, Gregory E et al (2022) Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, Early online. doi: 10.1111/acer.15004

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Treatment of alcohol use problems among rural populations: a review of barriers and considerations for increasing access to quality care.

Davis, Christal N and O'Neill, Susan E (2022) Current Addiction Reports, 9, (4), pp. 432-444. doi: 10.1007/s40429-022-00454-3

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Acute alcoholic hallucinosis: a review

Skryabin, Valentin Yurievich et al (2023) Psychopathology, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1159/000528573

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The efficacy of cue exposure therapy on alcohol use disorders: a quantitative meta-analysis and systematic review.

Kiyak, Ceyda et al (2023) Addictive Behaviors, 139. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107578

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Alcohol-specific inhibition training in patients with alcohol use disorder: a multi-centre, double-blind randomized clinical trial examining drinking outcome and working mechanisms.

Stein, Maria et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.16104

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Being and becoming a father in the context of heavy drinking and other substance use—a qualitative evidence synthesis.

Salonen, D et al (2023) Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, Early online. doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2023.2167650

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Understanding the digital media ecosystem: how the evolution of the digital marketing ecosystem impacts tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food marketing

(2022) Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe

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Reducing noncommunicable diseases: a signature roadmap for the WHO European Region.

(2022) Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe

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E-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI): a review of international case reports from outside the United States of America

Sund, Lachlan J et al (2023) Clinical Toxicology, Early online. pp. 1-7. doi.org/10.1080/15563650.2022.2160342

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Health impact of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Current and emerging evidence

Morjaria, Jaymin B et al (2023) Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, Early online. doi.org/10.1080/17476348.2023.2167716

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Clinical testing of the cardiovascular effects of e-cigarette substitution for smoking: a living systematic review

La Rosa, Giusy et al (2023) Internal and Emergency Medicine, doi: 10.1007/s11739-022-03161-z

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Recent studies on the development of nicotine abuse and behavioral changes induced by chronic stress depending on gender

Grabowska, Karolina et al (2023) Brain Sciences, 13, (1). doi: 10.3390/brainsci13010121

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The economic and social cost of harms associated with gambling in England

Evidence update 2023. (2023) London: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities

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The relationship between problematic gambling severity and engagement with gambling products: longitudinal analysis of the Emerging Adults Gambling Survey.

Wardle, Heather and Tipping, Sarah (2023) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.16125

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What is the evidence that advertising policies could have an impact on gambling-related harms? A systematic umbrella review of the literature.

McGrane, E et al (2023) Public Health, Early online. doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.11.019 (In Press)

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