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Addiction

Year: 2020
Articles in SafetyLit: 71

A cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of the school-based drug prevention programme, #Tamojunto2.0

A life-course theory exploration of opioid-related maternal mortality in the United States

A life-time of hazardous drinking and harm to health among older adults: findings from the Whitehall II prospective cohort study

Acknowledging and monitoring the costs of seriously regulating cannabis

Adolescent income and binge drinking initiation: prospective evidence from the MyLife study

Age-based preferences for risk communication in the fentanyl era: "A lot of people keep seeing other people die and that's not enough for them."

Alcohol and drug problems among Australian homicide offenders

Alcohol policy in Chile: a systematic review of policy developments and evaluations

An N-of-1 study of daily alcohol consumption following Minimum Unit Pricing implementation in Scotland

Applying Bayesian cognitive models to decisions to drive after drinking

Assessing New Zealand's Cannabis Legalization and Control Bill: prospects and challenges

Assessment of the impact of implementation of a zero-blood alcohol concentration law in Uruguay on moderate/severe injury and fatal crashes: a quasi-experimental study

Association of vaping-related lung injuries with rates of e-cigarette and cannabis use across US states

Associations between solitary drinking and increased alcohol consumption, alcohol problems, and drinking to cope motives in adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Cannabis use disorder trajectories and their prospective predictors in a large population-based sample of young Swiss men

Carfentanil and the rise and fall of overdose deaths in the United States

Characteristics and circumstances of death related to the self-administration of ketamine

Characteristics of oxycodone-related ambulance attendances: analysis of temporal trends, and the effect of reformulation in Victoria, Australia from 2013-2018

Commentary on Kypri & Livingston (2020): Alcohol trading hour restrictions reduce assault incidence

Commentary on Niederdeppe et al. (2020): Alcohol marketing exposure regulation should apply to all

Commentary on Raitasalo et al. (2020): Looking beyond the borders-what else is driving the decline in adolescent alcohol consumption?

Commentary on Rehm et al. (2019): Alcohol control policy and changes in alcohol-related traffic harm

Commentary on Shi & Liang (2020): Has cannabis legalization increased acute cannabis-related harms?

Concurrent validity of the Alcohol Purchase Task for measuring the reinforcing efficacy of alcohol: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Cross-country differences in age trends in alcohol consumption among older adults: a cross-sectional study of individuals aged 50 years and older in 22 countries

Development of a computerized adaptive substance use disorder scale for screening and measurement: the CAT-SUD

Developmental patterns of tobacco product and cannabis use initiation in high school

Does correctional supervision of amphetamine users reduce the risk of re-offending?

Does intentional asphyxiation by strangulation have addictive properties?

Drinking risk varies within and between Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander samples: a meta-analysis to identify sources of heterogeneity

Drunk, dangerous and delusional: how legal concept-creep risks overcriminalization

Effect of a 1-year short message service in detoxified alcohol-dependent patients (CAPS): a multi-centre, open-label randomised controlled trial

Estimated televised alcohol advertising exposure in the past year and associations with past 30-day drinking behavior among American adults: results from a secondary analysis of large-scale advertising and survey data

Evaluating the causal impact of individual alcohol licensing decisions on local health and crime using natural experiments with synthetic controls

Evaluating the effectiveness of the smartphone app, Drink Less, compared with the NHS alcohol advice webpage, for the reduction of alcohol consumption among hazardous and harmful adult drinkers in the UK at six-month follow-up: protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Familial factors may not explain the effect of moderate-to-heavy cannabis use on cognitive functioning in adolescents: a sibling-comparison study

Heterogeneities in administration methods among cannabis users by use purpose and state legalization status: findings from a nationally representative survey in the US, 2020

Impact of opioid dose escalation on the development of substance use disorders, accidents, self-inflicted injuries, opioid overdoses and alcohol and non-opioid drug-related overdoses: a retrospective cohort study

Importance of a standard unit dose for cannabis research

Incidence of assault in Sydney, Australia, through 5 years of alcohol trading hour restrictions: controlled before-and-after study

Legal cannabis-what's in it?

Medical marijuana laws and driving under the influence of marijuana and alcohol

Methadone-related deaths among youth and young adults in Sweden 2006-2015

Minimum THC unit pricing: an opportunity for harm reduction

Modelling the effects of alcohol pricing policies on alcohol consumption in subpopulations in Australia

Moving forwards with the standard THC unit

Polysubstance use and association with opioid use disorder treatment in the US Veterans Health Administration

Predictors of transitions across stages of alcohol use and disorders in an adult population with heterogeneous ethnic restrictions regarding drinking

Prevalence and description of kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) use in the United States: a cross-sectional study

Prices, alcohol use initiation and heavy episodic drinking among Chilean youth

Reefer Madness: an undeserved classic movie

Regulating cannabis retail for public health over private profit

Relationships between US state alcohol policies and alcohol outcomes: differences by gender and race/ethnicity

Reporting of alcohol as a contributor to death in Australian national suicide statistics and its relationship to post-mortem alcohol concentrations

Response to Humphreys and Hall; reducing the risks of distortion in cannabis research

Similar countries, similar factors? Studying the decline of heavy episodic drinking in adolescents in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Slow associative learning in alcohol dependence and the alcohol cue exposure treatment paradox

Telephone-based motivational interviewing enhanced with individualised personality-specific coping skills training for young people with alcohol-related injuries and illnesses accessing emergency or rest/recovery services: a randomized controlled trial (QuikFix)

Text messaging interventions for reducing alcohol consumption among risky drinkers: systematic review and meta-analysis

The association between recreational cannabis commercialization and cannabis exposures reported to the US National Poison Data System

The interactive effect of location, alcohol consumption and non-traffic injury

The long-term effectiveness of universal, selective and combined prevention for alcohol use during adolescence: 36-month outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial

The overall effect of parental supply of alcohol across adolescence on alcohol-related harms in early adulthood - a prospective cohort study

The pub and the people. A worktown study by mass observation

The theory of collectivity of drinking cultures: how alcohol became everyone's problem

Tramadol use and public health consequences in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Trends in cannabis use and attitudes towards legalization and use among Australians from 2001-2016: an age-period-cohort analysis

Trends in marijuana use in two Latin-American countries: an age, period, and cohort study

Unemployment from stable, downsized and closed workplaces, and alcohol-related mortality

Washington's liquor license system and alcohol-related adverse health outcomes

World Health Organization risk drinking level reductions are associated with improved functioning and are sustained among patients with mild, moderate, and severe alcohol dependence in clinical trials in the United States and United Kingdom