September 2025

Lenton, S., Potter, G., Fortin, D., Granville, A., Grigg, J., Sevigny, E., Wilkins, C., Decorte, T., & Barratt, M. (2025). Growing practices and the use of potentially harmful chemical additives from a web survey of mainly small-scale cannabis growers in 18 countries. The International Journal of Drug Policy, 144(Pt 3), Article 104662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104662

Søgaard, T. F., Brummer, J. E., Wilkins, C., Sznitman, S. R., Sevigny, E. L., Frank, V. A., Potter, G., Hakkarainen, P., Barratt, M. J., Werse, B., Grigg, J., Fortin, D., Bear, D., Lenton, S., Jauffret-Roustide, M., & Kirtadze, I. (2025). Global patterns in small-scale cannabis growers’ distribution practices: Exploring the grower-distributor nexus. The International Journal of Drug Policy, 144(Pt 3), Article 104463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104463

Sznitman, S. R., Potter, G. R., Grigg, J., Granville, A., Hakkarainen, P., Decorte, T., Lenton, S., Fortin, D., Bear, D., Kirtadze, I., Jauffret-Roustide, M., Barratt, M. J., & Sevigny, E. L. (2025). Are cannabis use problems comparable across individuals using for recreational and medical purposes? An international cross-sectional study of individuals who use self-grown cannabis. The International Journal of Drug Policy, 144(Pt 3), Article 104263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104263

Erasmus-Claassen, L.-A., Mpisane, N., Petersen Williams, P., Browne, F. A., Myers, B., Wechsberg, W. M., Parry, C. D. H., Taylor, S. N., & Washio, Y. (2025). Participant experiences with a text message and contingency management intervention for alcohol use during pregnancy and lactation in Cape Town, South Africa. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 20(1), Article 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-025-00594-7

Dzidowska, M., Conigrave, J. H., Wilson, S., Hayman, N., Cook, J., Gu, L., Phung, D., Dawson, A., Percival, N., Stearne, A., Tracy, M., Perry, J., Chikritzhs, T., Fitts, M., Weatherall, T. J., Bullen, L., Holloway, C., Morley, K., Ansari, M. A., & Lee, K. K. (2025). Adapting the Grog survey app for alcohol screening and feedback in aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services: a mixed methods study protocol. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 20(1), Article 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-025-00602-w

Clare, P., Yuen, W., Henderson, A., Kypri, K., Bruno, R., Slade, T., Hutchinson, D., McBride, N., Wodalowski, M., McCambridge, J., Denenhardt, L., Boland, V., Mattick, R. & Peacock, A. (2025). Does alcohol use and related harm differ based on the age of initiation to alcohol? Results from a prospective cohort study. Addiction. [In Press]

Grigg, J., Lenton, S., Peacock, A., Soderstrom, J., King, C., Thomas, N. & Sutherland, R. (2025). Nitrous oxide sourcing, use, and harms: Insights from Australians who use ecstasy/MDMA and other illicit stimulants. Drug and Alcohol Review. [In Press]

Thompson, K., Di Censo, G., Bowden, J., Georgiou, N., Thompson, M., Cock, V., Brewerton, B., & Ryder, C. (2025). Evaluation of a Residential Managed Alcohol Program for Aboriginal Peoples Experiencing Homelessness and Alcohol Dependence: Short‐Term Impacts of an Australian Trial. Drug and Alcohol Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70025

Thompson, K., Housen, T., & Talwar, J. (2025). Editorial: Social science contributions to public health. Frontiers in Public Health, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1680022

Vojt, G., Elliott, L., Family, H., Sharkey, C., Stephens, B., Hutchinson, S., Hickman, M., Dillon, J. F., Harris, M., & Flowers, P. (2025). Post‐treatment life‐trajectories among people who inject drugs who completed hepatitis C treatment with direct acting antivirals: A thematic analysis. British Journal of Health Psychology, 30(3), e70005. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.70005

Fischer, B., Albrecht, H. J., & Hall, W. (2025). Pragmatic suggestions on Germany’s cannabis legalization policy under the new federal government towards protecting public health and safety. SUCHT: Journal of Addiction Research and Practice, 71(4), 266-268. https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000936

Gilmore, W., & Gilmore, I. (2025). Preventing Alcohol-Related Harm: Effective Strategies and the Role of Health Professionals. British journal of hospital medicine, 86(8), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2024.0719

Renner, H. M., Rowland, B., Hutchinson, D., & Toumbourou, J. W. (2025). Profiling Vulnerability in Youth and Predicting Educational Attainment in Young Adulthood. Journal of Adolescence (London, England.). https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.70042

Sun, T., Chan, G. C. K., Stjepanović, D., Yimer, T., Vu, G. T., Lim, C., McClure‐Thomas, C., Russel, C., Connor, J., Hall, W., Hides, L., Hammond, D., Dietrich, T., Erku, D., Johnson, B., & Leung, J. (2025). Co‐Designing AI ‐Generated Vaping Awareness Materials With Adolescents and Young Adults: A Qualitative Study. Drug and Alcohol Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70022

Dobson, R., Stowell, M., Uri, A., McRobbie, H., Garner, K., Umali, E., Evison, K., & Whittaker, R. (2025). A mixed-methods evaluation of a culturally tailored maternal and child mHealth programme: txtpēpi. Journal of Health Psychology, 13591053251357389. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053251357389

Clifton, B., Keen, P., Trevillyan, J., Sullivan, N., Johnson, K., Warner, M., Taheny, C., Ellis, H., Freestone, J., Allan, B., & Newham, B. (2025). Strategies to achieve the UNAIDS 95% HIV diagnosis target in Australia: Insights from a multidisciplinary roundtable. HIV Medicine, 26(S3), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.70083

Fortin, D., Di Beo, V., Kowalski, M., Sevigny, E. L., Grigg, J., Protopopescu, C., & Potter, G. R. (2025). Cannabis growers as gardeners: results from a survey among Italian and British small-scale growers. The International Journal of Drug Policy, 144(Pt 3), Article 104959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104959

Knezevic, A., Olcoń, K., Cameron, J., Pai, P., & Allan, J. (2025). From stress to support: an ethnographic journey of a staff-led wellbeing intervention in maternity services. BMC Health Services Research, 25(1), Article 1057. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13239-x

Nielsen, S., Picco, L., Rowland, B., Andrew, N. E., Collyer, T. A., Lalic, S., Buchbinder, R., Pearce, C., Bell, J. S., Lubman, D. I., & Xia, T. (2025). Prescription opioid supply‐restricting policies and hospital use by people prescribed opioid medications, Victoria, 2018–22: a controlled interrupted time series analysis. Medical Journal of Australia, 223(3), 134–140. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52713

Attwood, L. O., Schroeder, S. E., Vujovic, O., Stewardson, A. J., Doyle, J. S., Dietze, P., Higgs, P., & Colledge‐Frisby, S. (2025). Qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to healthcare engagement for people with injecting‐related invasive infections using a social ecological framework. Addiction (Abingdon, England). https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70175

Callinan, S., D’Aquino, S., Riordan, B., Raninen, J., Livingston, M., Dietze, P. M., Gmel, G., & Room, R. (2025). Survey Questions on Quantity and Frequency Are Differentially Effective by Age in Predicting Future Alcohol Consumption. Drug and Alcohol Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70019

Chan, G. C. K., Sun, T., Vu, G., & Hall, W. (2025). Caution is needed when interpreting interrupted time series findings on vaping and smoking. The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 61, Article 101656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2025.101656

Chung, J., Lim, C. C. W., Leung, J., Stjepanović, D., Chiu, V., Hides, L., Connor, J. P., Hall, W., & Chan, G. C. K. (2025). Cannabis Vaping in Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Risk Factors in Adolescents and Young Adults. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.24-00464

Gardner, L. A., Newton, N. C., Rowe, A.-L., O’Dean, S., Teesson, M., Hides, L., McBride, N., Sunderland, M., Freeman, B., Egan, L., Hawkins, A., Ellem, R., Catakovic, A., Caradmone, E., Alcorn, C., Blackburn, K., East, J., Thornton, L., Stapinski, L., … Stockings, E. (2025). The OurFutures Vaping eHealth intervention to prevent e-cigarette use among adolescent students in Australia: a cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. Public Health, 10(8), e682–e692. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00145-8

Gomes, M. N., Reid, J. L., Taylor, E. V., Edwards, R., O’Connor, R., Hyland, A., & Hammond, D. (2025). E-cigarette consumption among youth who vape in Canada, England, New Zealand and the USA: Exploring methods to quantify consumption amounts and differences by product attributes using population-level surveys. Tobacco Control, tc-2024-059245. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2024-059245

Heath, K., Guzman, R., Elsum, I., Wade, A. J., Allardice, K., Kasza, J., Bryant, M., Thompson, A. J., Stoové, M., Snelling, T., Scott, N., Spelman, T., Anderson, D. A., Richmond, J., Howell, J., Andric, N., Dietze, P., Higgs, P., Sacks‐Davis, R., … Doyle, J. S. (2025). Balancing Efficiency and Accuracy in Hepatitis C Rapid Antibody Testing: Insights From a Cluster Randomised Crossover Trial. Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 32(8), e70043-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvh.70043

Jurecka, C., Adams, J., Padmanabhan, P., Glanz, J., Christine, P., Guan, X., Kline, D., Binswanger, I., & Barocas, J. (2025). Implementation of a Statewide Fentanyl Possession Law and Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths. JAMA Health Forum, 6(8), e252654. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.2654

Kleinschafer, J., Allan, J., Saksena, T., & Rahman, A. (2025). Willingness to Comply With Health Advice on COVID‐19 in Rural Australia: Results of a Cross‐Sectional Survey. The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 33(4), e70078-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.70078

Kline, D. M., Padmanabhan, P., Brewer, S. E., Cerdá, M., Versen, E., Keyes, K. M., Kushel, M., Wilson, E. C., Wesson, P., Hyder, A., Boyer, A., Al-Tayyib, A., & Barocas, J. A. (2025). Improving health and housing outcomes through a simulation and economic model: an evidence-based protocol of a group model building approach to develop an agent-based model. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1623385. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1623385

Le Bas, G., Aarsman, S. R., Rogers, A., Macdonald, J. A., Misuraca, G., Khor, S., Spry, E. A., Rossen, L., Weller, E., Mansour, K., Youssef, G., Olsson, C. A., Teague, S. J., & Hutchinson, D. (2025). Paternal Perinatal Depression, Anxiety, and Stress and Child Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JAMA Pediatrics, 179(8), 903–917. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.0880

Newcombe, D. A. L., de Fossard, S., McKetin, R., Nosa, V., Parag, V., Poa, T. R., Ramalho, R., Ao, B. T., Sheridan, J., Walters, C., & Walker, N. (2025). Tū Whakaruruhau: the evaluation of treatment outcomes for methamphetamine dependence in Aotearoa, New Zealand – study protocol for a prospective longitudinal cohort study and longitudinal qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 25(1), Article 1131. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13233-3

Thompson, K., Ahad, M. A., Di Censo, G., Hines, S., Rich, N., McEntee, A., & Bowden, J. (2025). Present but Overlooked: A Scoping Review of Instruments and Approaches for Measuring Presenteeism Related to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Use. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-025-10317-z

Trigg, J., McEntee, A., Kostadinov, V., Hines, S., Fairweather, A. K., Guillaumier, A., Fischer, J., Bonevski, B., Smith, J. A., Wilson, C., Otieno, L., & Bowden, J. (2025). Tobacco cessation interventions in high-income countries with Chinese, Vietnamese and Arab people who smoke: a scoping review of outcomes and cultural considerations. BMJ Public Health, 3(2), e002956. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2025-002956

Gates, P. J., Zocco, A. C., & Farnbach, S. (2025). A systematic review of reviews on comprehensive community initiatives to prevent or reduce alcohol and other drug harms. Addiction (Abingdon, England). https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70153

Christensen, S., Richmond, J., Beavon, E., Gorringe, A., Adamson, E., Wallace, J., Armstrong, P., Gobeil, J., Morrison, E., Crawford, S., Gavin, N., Harrod, M. E., Henderson, C., Pedrana, A., & Walsh, L. (2025). Mapping experiences of workplace stigma and discrimination within the lived-living experience of illicit drug use and bloodborne virus peer workforce: a scoping review. Harm Reduction Journal, 22(1), Article 127. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01282-0

Hue, T. T. T., Ngo, H. K. T., Wang, Z., Anh, N. T. K., Binh, V. N., Trung, N. Q., Chinh, P. Q., Luong, H. T., Zheng, Q., Hall, W., & Thai, P. K. (2025). Significant changes in preference of illicit drug use in a population of Hanoi, Vietnam—A 6‐year wastewater study (2018–2023). Addiction (Abingdon, England). https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70147

Craven, A., Ferris, J., Nielsen, S., & Piatkowski, T. (2025). Lead Astray? The Hidden Contaminants in Australian Anabolic–Androgenic Steroid Market and Their Potential Health Impact. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(6), 1641–1647. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70007

Lewer, D., Tattan‐Birch, H., & Cox, S. (2025). Among people who use heroin, tobacco smoking and illegal drugs cause a similar number of premature deaths. Addiction (Abingdon, England). https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70140

Grummitt, L., Visontay, R., Clare, P., Slade, T., & Birrell, L. (2025). Multivariable machine learning prediction of risky alcohol use in contemporary youth. Addiction (Abingdon, England). https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70145

Ni, Z., Oh, S., Saifi, R., Azwa, I., & Altice, F. L. (2025). Evaluating the Usability of an HIV Prevention Artificial Intelligence Chatbot in Malaysia: National Observational Study. JMIR Human Factors, 12, e70034–e70034. https://doi.org/10.2196/70034

Roberts, E., Parmanand, S., & Copeland, C. (2025). Characteristics of Drug‐Related Deaths Among Individuals Engaged in Sex Work in the United Kingdom, 1997–2023. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(6), 1805–1810. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70008

Gardner, C., Lane, C., Hall, A., McCarthy, N., Pollock, E., Sutherland, R., Wolfenden, L., & Nathan, N. (2025). Exploring the impact of a daily sport uniform policy in primary schools: a qualitative study with students and teachers. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 7, 1633045. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2025.1633045

Weatherburn, D., Doyle, M., Weatherall, T., & Wang, J. (2025). Colonization and Its Legacy: The Correlates of Indigenous Arrest. British Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf059

Waddell, A., Watterson, J. L., Basur, D., Prawira, C. O., Picco, L., Lam, T., Olivier, P., Seguin, J. P., Kay, L., & Nielsen, S. (2025). An evidence-based digital prescription opioid safety toolkit for national dissemination: co-design and user testing. Frontiers in Digital Health, 7, 1600836. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1600836

Abbott, G., Greenwood, L., Bartschi, J. G., Dunsford, S., Goodwin, I., Paloubis, A., Valera, M. Q., McTavish, E., Verdejo-Garcia, A., Cousijn, J., Chan, G. C. K., Solowij, N., & Lorenzetti, V. (2025). Cognitive performance in young adults who endorse a cannabis use disorder. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 142, Article 152620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2025.152620

Lima, F., O’Donnell, M., Gibberd, A. J., Falster, K., Banks, E., Jones, J., Williams, R., Eades, F., Harrap, B., Chenhall, R., Octoman, O., & Eades, S. (2025). The Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care in Western Australia. The Australian Journal of Social Issues, 60(3), 812–823. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70048

Roberts, E., Strang, J., Taylor, E., Crummy, J., Lowden, T., Amasiatu, C., & Eastwood, B. (2025). Prediction of individualised 6-month mortality risk in opioid use disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2025.10313

Piatkowski, T., Coomber, R., Francis, C., Kill, E., Davey, G., Cresswell, S., White, A., Harding, M., Blakey, K., Reeve, S., Walters, B., Puljević, C., Ferris, J., & Barratt, M. J. (2025). Anabolic-androgenic steroid testing as a tool for consumer engagement and harm reduction: a sequential explanatory mixed-method study. Harm Reduction Journal, 22(1), Article 114. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01270-4

Fetters, K. B., & Barocas, J. A. (2025). Advocating for Maintaining Housing First Policies. JAMA : The Journal of the American Medical Association, 334(6), 485–486. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.9401

Lin, K., M., K. A. H., Thapa, S., Allan, J., Buys, N., & Sun, J. (2025). Relationship of parental caregiving and child labour with developmental problems and mental health in children in low-to-middle-income countries using the socioecological resilience model. BMC Public Health, 25(1), Article 2323. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23527-0

Ait Ouakrim, D., Wilson, T., Howe, S., Summers, J., Edwards, R., Gartner, C. E., Wilson, N., & Blakely, T. (2025). Modelling the potential impacts of limiting vaping product sales to pharmacies. Tobacco Control, tc-2025-059305. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059305

Bonevski, B., Rich, J., Lubman, D. I., Segan, C., Baker, A., Borland, R., Oldmeadow, C., Gartner, C., Walker, N., Dunlop, A., Daglish, M., Bullen, C., Bauld, L., Jacka, D., Garfield, J. B. B., McCrohan, R., Guillaumier, A., & Manning, V. (2025). Nicotine e-cigarettes for smoking cessation following discharge from smoke-free inpatient alcohol and other drug withdrawal services: a pragmatic two-arm, single-blinded, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. Public Health, 10(7), e568–e577. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00101-X

Fischer, B., Hall, W., Jutras-Aswad, D., & Le Foll, B. (2025). Considering possible drivers of the recent decrease in drug overdose deaths in Canada. Lancet Regional Health - Americas (Online), 47, Article 101141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101141

Graham, M., Pacula, R. L., Pessar, S. C., Ge, Y., Kritikos, A. F., Hall, W., & Hammond, D. (2025). Understanding medical cannabis use internationally: Why definitions and context matter. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 120(10), 2141–2146. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70117

Hall, W., Jutras-Aswad, D., Le Foll, B., & Fischer, B. (2025). ‘Involuntary treatment’ for severe substance use disorders: Selected suggestions to move considerations from ideological to evidence-based perspectives. Psychiatry Research, 351, Article 116621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116621

Hefler, M. (2025). First post-COVID World Conference on Tobacco Control: making progress in the ‘new normal.’ Tobacco Control, 34(4), 423–424. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059696

Leung, J., Sun, T., Stjepanović, D., Vu, G., Yimer, T., Connor, J. P., Hall, W., & Chan, G. C. K. (2025). Generative Artificial Intelligence With Youth Codesign to Create Vaping Awareness Advertisements. JAMA Network Open, 8(7), e2514040. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.14040

Malhi, G. S., Adlington, K., Al-Diwani, A., Ali, S., Arya, R., Baldwin, D. S., Batley, P., Bell, E., Berrios, G., Beveridge, A., Bhat, M., Bhugra, D., Biswas, A., Byford, S., Campbell, C., Cass, H., Chadda, R. K., Chamberlain, S. R., Chevance, A., … Fernandez-Egea, E. (2025). The value of mental science: we publish what matters. British Journal of Psychiatry, 227(1), 429–433. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2025.118

Sivak, L., Reilly, R., Crumpen, S., Treloar, C., McKetin, R., Butt, J., Roe, Y., Ezard, N., Quinn, B., Nagle, J., Longbottom, W., Warrior, C., & Ward, J. (2025). Reducing Methamphetamine Use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities With the “We Can Do This” Web App: Qualitative Evaluation of Acceptability and Feasibility. JMIR Formative Research, 9, e58369–e58369. https://doi.org/10.2196/58369

Stronach, O., Dietze, P., Livingston, M., & Roxburgh, A. (2025). An age–period–cohort–interaction analysis of meth/amphetamine‐related deaths in Australia, 2001–2020. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 120(10), 2032–2043. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70100

Darke, S., Duflou, J., Lappin, J., Farrell, M., & Peacock, A. (2025). Characteristics and toxicology of adult deaths due to quetiapine toxicity in Australia, 2000–2024. Journal of Forensic Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.70124

de Oliveira Costa, J., Lin, J., Milder, T. Y., Havard, A., Greenfield, J. R., Day, R. O., Neuen, B. L., Gibson, A. A., Morton, J. I., Sacre, J. W., Pearson, S.-A., & Falster, M. O. (2025). Variation in uptake of sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor analogues in adults with type 2 diabetes at high cardiovascular risk. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 81(9), 1315–1327. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-025-03870-2

Puljević, C., Pocuca, N., Dakin, B. C., Barratt, M. J., Francis, C., Stjepanović, D., Gill, S., Davey, G., & Hides, L. (2025). ‘It’d Be Nice to Know if You’re About to Have Drain Cleaner’: A Qualitative Study of Preferred Drug Checking Service Features to Inform the Design of CheQpoint, Queensland’s First Fixed‐Site Drug Checking Service. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(6), 1772–1785. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70003

Vu, G. T., Sun, T., Hall, W., Connor, J. P., Thai, P., Gartner, C., Leung, J., & Chan, G. (2025). Trends in Social Norms Toward Cigarette Smoking and E-cigarette Use Among U.S. Youth Between 2015 and 2021. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaf120

Yuen, W. S., Man, N., Livingston, M., Chrzanowska, A., Gilmore, W., Tierney, L., Moran, L., & Peacock, A. (2025). Excess Alcohol‐Induced Hospitalisations and Deaths During the First Year of the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(6), 1756–1771. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14097

Sturgiss, E. A., Norman, K., Haines, T., Long, K., Nielsen, S., Sim, J., Shlonsky, A., Shannon, B., & Williams, C. (2025). The Digital Library of Health Care Consultations and Simulated Health Care Student Teaching: Protocol for a Repository of Recordings to Support Communication Research. JMIR Research Protocols, 14, e67910. https://doi.org/10.2196/67910

Grigg, J. & Lenton, S. (2025). Awareness of mandated labels on nitrous oxide products among a sample of people who regularly use illicit stimulants and report recent nitrous oxide use in Australia, 2022-24. Drug Trends Bulletin Series. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney. https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/31196

Economidis, G., Lynch, M., Taylor, S., Asare‐Doku, W., Macpherson, G., Degenhardt, L., Farrell, M., & Santo, T. (2025). Global Perspectives on Kava: A Narrative Systematic Review of the Health Effects, Economic and Social Impacts and Policy Considerations. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(6), 1601–1640. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14080

Siefried, K. J., Hill, P., Clifford, B., Brown, J., Camilleri, A., Crawford, S., Dessauer, P., Dilkes-Frayne, E., Freestone, J., Gobeil, J., Harrod, M. E., Hudson, S., Hull, P., Lenton, S., Lyons, T., Oh, G., Peacock, A., Pierce, A., Sidaway, P., … Ezard, N. (2025). Co-design of the Australian Prompt Response Network for a public-health focused intersectoral approach to information sharing on emerging drugs of concern. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1521911. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1521911

Tran, L. T., McKetin, R., Clark, B., Macdonald, C., Zahra, E., Arunogiri, S., Montebello, M. E., & Degenhardt, L. (2025). The association between mental disorders and treatment retention among people with opioid use disorder receiving opioid agonist treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 274, Article 112768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112768

Stevens, M. W. R., Bertossa, S., Barry, D., Holmwood, C., Lee, K. K., Marsden, J., Pedler, M., Thompson, M., Wilson, S., & Ali, R. L. (2025). ASSIST in Pitjantjatjara: Protocol for a randomised crossover validation study among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 47, Article 101532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101532

Stevens, A., Agnew-Pauley, W., Bacon, M., Glasspoole-Bird, H., Hendrie, N., Hughes, C. E., Lloyd, C., Monaghan, M., Smith, R., Sutton, C., Williams, E., & Quinton, P. (2025). Cascading Constraint and Subsidiary Discretion: Perspectives on Police Discretion From Police-Led Drug Diversion and Stop and Search in England. British Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf050

Bartram, A., Ahad, M. A., Long, A., Lubman, D. I., Morrison, E., Rundle, J., Lee, N., Wilson, S., & Bowden, J. (2025). ‘It’s Hard to Look Past the Accessibility’: Service Provider Perspectives on Implementing Telehealth for Alcohol and Other Drug Counselling as a Health Service Innovation. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(5), 1321–1329. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70000

Lim, C. C. W., Trigg, J., & Sun, T. (2025). Cigfluencers: how celebrities and influencers are glamourising smoking again. Tobacco Control, tc-2024-059240. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2024-059240

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Chung, J., Lim, C. C. W., Stjepanović, D., Hall, W., Connor, J. P., & Chan, G. C. K. (2025). Adolescent Cannabis Vaping Trends (2021–2023): Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, Cannabidiol, and Synthetic Cannabinoids. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Article 107655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2025.107655

Man, N., Akhurst, J., Price, O., Chrzanowska, A., Sutherland, R., Dietze, P. M., Bruno, R., Degenhardt, L., Yuen, W. S., Moran, L., Tierney, L., & Peacock, A. (2025). Changes in Drug‐Induced Hospitalisations and Deaths During the First Year of the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(5), 1419–1429. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14088

Rees, P., Dronavalli, M., Carter, B., Bajuk, B., Burns, L., Dickson, M., Eastwood, J., Hossain, S., Lawler, K., Lee, E., Munasinghe, S., Page, A., Uebel, H., Dicair, L., Green, C., Gale, C., & Oei, J. L. (2025). School outcomes after HIE: a population-based cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, fetalneonatal-2024-328346. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-328346

Wallace, R., Clay, S., Shakeshaft, A., & Farnbach, S. (2025). ‘I Think That Is a Big Step From Here to There’: Exploring the Views of Service Providers About Delivering Drug‐ and Alcohol‐Related Health Services to Aboriginal People in Rural New South Wales. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(5), 1564–1572. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14096

Hides, L., Campbell, G., Morris, L., Ellem, R., Newland, G., Pocuca, N., & Quinn, C. (2025). A Pilot Single-arm Implementation-Effectiveness Study of the First Step Brief Intervention in Community Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services. Global Implementation Research and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43477-025-00168-4

Lloyd, Z., Colledge‐Frisby, S., Taylor, N., Livingston, M., Jauncey, M., & Roxburgh, A. (2025). Analyses Updated to 2022–23 on Australian Attitudes Towards Supervised Injecting Facilities. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(5), 1444–1448. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14089

Price, O., Larney, S., Martel‐Laferrière, V., Bruneau, J., & Harney, B. (2025). Susceptibility to Hepatitis B Virus Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs in Montreal, Canada. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(5), 1526–1532. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14091

Rance, J., Belackova, V., Bell, J., Dunlop, A. J., Ezard, N., Jauncey, M., Lintzeris, N., Oviedo‐Joekes, E., Ritter, A., Roberts, D. M., Rodgers, C., Siefried, K. J., Strang, J., Brink, W., & Treloar, C. (2025). Hydromorphone Hopes: A Qualitative Study of People Initiating Supervised Short‐Acting Injectable Opioid Treatment in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(5), 1533–1542. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14092

Zwick, H., O’Dea, R., Barocas, J. A., Flam-Ross, J. M., Chatterjee, A., Walley, A. Y., Harris, R. A., Schackman, B. R., White, L. F., Chrysanthopoulou, S. A., Assoumou, S. A., Murphy, S. M., Morgan, J. R., Baptiste, D., Carroll, M., & Linas, B. P. (2025). Health and Economic Outcomes of Addressing Encampments of Individuals Using Opioids. JAMA Network Open, 8(6), e2517095. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.17095

Brett, J., Bruno, C., Varney, B., Havard, A., Shand, A., Huybrechts, K. F., & Zoega, H. (2025). Analgesic opioids in pregnancy and placental malperfusion-related disorders: a population-based cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 54(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf137

Di Censo, G., Thompson, K., & Bowden, J. (2025). Identifying predictors of Australian workers’ illicit substance use: A nationally representative study. Addictive Behaviors, 170, Article 108417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108417

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Kim, H., Gartner, C., Edwards, R., Puljević, C., Morphett, K., Kim, D. H., Chun, H., Ekdahl, M., & Kang, H. (2025). Public Support for Tobacco Endgame Policies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 27(4), 586–597. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntae149

Visscher, J., Bonevski, B., & O’Callaghan, M. (2025). The association of smoking with urinary and sexual function recovery following radical prostatectomy. BJU International, 136(4), 647–656. https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.16817

Lewer, D., Tilouche, N., Bradbury, M., Brothers, T. D., Holland, A., Hope, V., Gittins, R., Scott, J., Searle, K., Watson, G., & Harris, M. (2025). Interventions to improve access to opioid agonist therapy in acute hospitals: A scoping review. PLOS Mental Health, 2(5), e0000322. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000322

Martin, K., Bryant, J., Bolt, R., Graham, S., Beadman, M., Doyle, M., Treloar, C., Bell, S., Murphy, D., Gardner, K., Newman, C., Browne, A., Beetson, K., Brooks, M., Wilms, J., Leece, B., Stanbury, L., Botfield, J., Davis, B., & Aggleton, P. (2025). Aboriginal adults’ perspectives on talking with young people about sexual health and relationships in two communities in Western Sydney, Australia. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2025.2510288

Mammoliti, E., Nielsen, S., & Roxburgh, A. (2025). A Scoping Review of the Emergence of Novel Synthetic Opioids in Australian Drug Markets: What Does This Mean for Harm Reduction Responses? Drug and Alcohol Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14079

HaGani, N., Owen, K., Clare, P. J., Merom, D., Smith, B. J., & Ding, D. (2025). Long-term elevated levels of loneliness are linked to lower health-related quality of life in middle-aged Australian women. Communications Psychology, 3(1), Article 85. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00264-z

Jones, N. R., Hickman, M., Bharat, C., Nielsen, S., Larney, S., Ghouse, N. F., Lappin, J., & Degenhardt, L. (2025). Identifying key risk factors for intentional self‐harm, including suicide, among a cohort of people prescribed opioid agonist treatment: A predictive modelling study. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 120(10), 2044–2054. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70095

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Pocuca, N., Dakin, B. C., Puljević, C., Francis, C., Stjepanović, D., Barnett, A., & Hides, L. (2025). Understanding Drug and Alcohol Staff Perspectives on the Barriers and Facilitators to Drug Checking: A Qualitative Study. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(5), 1330–1338. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14073

Fischer, B., Hall, W., Jutras-Aswad, D., & Le Foll, B. (2025). Involuntary Treatment for Severe Substance Use Disorders – Issues, Evidence and Considerations for its Use. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 70(8), 597–599. https://doi.org/10.1177/07067437251338553

Dawson, D., Chan, G., Stjepanović, D., Lorenzetti, V., Hall, W. D., & Leung, J. (2025). The prevalence and correlates of self‐reported cannabis use for medicinal, dual and recreational motives in Australia: Findings from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2022/2023. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(5), 1351–1364. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14062

Hall, W., Dawson, D., Johnson, B., & Yimer, T. (2025). The evolution of Australian cannabis policies over the period 1967-2024. St Lucia, Qld: The University of Queensland National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research. https://doi.org/10.14264/77ac3fc

Elphinston, R. A., Pager, S., Fatehi, F., Sterling, M., Brown, K., Gray, P., Hipper, L., Cahill, L., Ziadni, M., Worthy, P., & Connor, J. P. (2025). Applying Patient and Health Professional Preferences in Co-Designing a Digital Brief Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Prescription Opioid–Related Harm Among Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain: Qualitative Analysis. JMIR Formative Research, 9, e57212. https://doi.org/10.2196/57212

Johnson, B., Seal, S., Wu, L., Glasgow, S., Connor, J., & Chan, G. (2025). A qualitative systematic thematic review of motivations for medical use of prescription stimulants among adults with ADHD. Journal of Affective Disorders, 383, 133–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.04.118

Hall, W., & Yeates, S. (2025). Isaac Campos. Home grown: Marijuana and the origins of Mexico’s war on drugs. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 120(10), 2147–2150. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70072

Banks, E., Scollo, M., Gartner, C., Freeman, B., Brown, S., Campbell, S., Yazidjoglou, A., Bittoun, R., Brooks, A., Chan, G., Collins, L., Conway, M., Dean, E., Dessaix, A., Dono, J., Gazey, A., Greenberg, T., Greenhalgh, E., Gupta, D., … Yoong, S. (2025). National E-cigarette Monitoring and Evidence Consortium: Supporting informed research, policy and practice in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 49(2), Article 100233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2025.100233

Cho, A., Scollo, M., Chan, G., Driezen, P., Hyland, A., Shang, C., & Gartner, C. E. (2025). Tobacco purchasing in Australia during regular tax increases: findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project. Tobacco Control, 34(2), 183–191. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2023-058130

Tran, D. T., Cohen, J. M., Donald, S., Cesta, C. E., Furu, K., Parkin, L., Pearson, S.-A., Reutfors, J., Robijn, A. L., Zoega, H., Zwar, N., & Havard, A. (2025). Risk of Major Congenital Malformations Following Prenatal Exposure to Smoking Cessation Medicines. JAMA Internal Medicine, 185(6), 656–667. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0290

Belete, H., Mekonen, T., Connor, J. P., Chan, G., Hides, L., & Leung, J. (2025). Tobacco smoking in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44(4), 1079–1091. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14040

Chan, G. C. K., He, E., Leung, J., & Verspoor, K. (2025). A comprehensive systematic review dataset is a rich resource for training and evaluation of AI systems for title and abstract screening. Research Synthesis Methods, 16(2), 308–322. https://doi.org/10.1017/rsm.2025.1

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Hamaoui, J., Pocuca, N., Ditoma, M., Héguy, C., Simard, C., Aubin, R., Lucic, A., & Castellanos-Ryan, N. (2025). Age of onset of cannabis use and substance use problems: A systematic review of prospective studies. Addictive Behaviors, 163, Article 108259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108259

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