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Open Access - Effectiveness of Alcohol Use Disorder Pharmacotherapies by Sex: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Juliette Allen, Andrew Jones, Gillian W. Shorter, Catharine Montgomery, Zetta Kougiali, Alina Bagnall, Claire Adshead, Jessie Smith, Sam Burton, Amanda Atkinson, Lillian Guelen, Abigail Rose
First published: 23 June 2026
Etomidate-Adulterated Vaping: Fragmented Global Drug Control and Public Health Risks
Nicholas Lassi, Su Jiang
First published: 11 June 2026
Lanfranco Pellesi , Taibah Ali Ahmad, Simona Guerzoni
First published: 19 May 2026
Original Papers
Open Access - Crossed Pathways: Tobacco–Cannabis Co-Use and Motivation to Quit in Young Adults in France
Tangui Barré, Géraldine Cazorla, Vincent Leroy, Gwenaëlle Maradan, Clotilde Couderc, Julia de Ternay, Carlotta Magnani, Patrizia Carrieri
First published: 25 June 2026
Methamphetamine Use for Weight Control: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Online Narratives
Cheri Kilmurray, Satish K. Kedia, Patrick J. Dillon, Farah Faizah, Coree Entwistle, Anna Langston
First published: 25 June 2026
Open Access - Health, Social and Recidivism Outcomes Among People Who Have Been Incarcerated in New South Wales, Australia: Study Protocol and Cohort Profile for the Prison Outcomes STudy (POST)
Louisa Degenhardt, Michael Farrell, Michael Doyle, Jack Stone, Chrianna Bharat, Matt Hickman, Marianne Martinello, Don Weatherburn, Kimberlie Dean, Joe Coyte, Christel Macdonald, Mary Ellen Harrod, Luke Grant, Gloria Larman, Peter Vickerman, Colette McGrath, Peter Thompson, Alison Churchill, Greg Dore, Thomas Santo
First published: 21 June 2026
Pricing Dynamics in European Illicit Drug Markets: Evidence From Wholesale, Retail and Margin Relationships
Evangelos Vasileiou
First published: 21 June 2026
Open Access - ‘We Feel Invisible a Lot of the Time’: Insights Into the Roles of Alcohol and Other Drug Lived and Living Experience Workers
Ariel D. Roxburgh, Shalini Arunogiri, Lauren Findlay, Victoria Manning
First published: 21 June 2026
Open Access - Perceptions of Buprenorphine With Naloxone Treatment and the Fear of Precipitated Withdrawal: A Qualitative Exploration With HIV Prevention Trials Network 094 INTEGRA Participants and Staff
Rose A. Schmidt, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Peter Davidson, Steve Shoptaw, Nabila El-Bassel, Philip Andrew, Jayla Harris, Omar Nieto, Sydney Bornstein, Rashaunna Redd, Jessica Yeager, David Goodman-Meza, Albert L. Hasson, Marc Seigel, Cecile Denis, Renee El-Krab, Laramie R. Smith, the HPTN 094 Team
First published: 20 June 2026
Open Access - On the Label: Implementation of Health Warnings on Alcohol Products in 13 European Countries
Daša Kokole, Maria Neufeld, Daniela Correia, Jürgen Rehm, Simone Pettigrew, Catherine Paradis, Carina Ferreira Borges, Almudena Núñez Fernández-Shaw, António Pedro Pinho, Claudia Pereira, Eglė Juškevičiūtė, Evangelia Savvidou, Jasmijn de Veld, Laura Plešnar, Leander Mergaert, Lucía Clemente Bermúdez, Melissa Sawaya, Mia Šelović, Miglė Kiguolytė, Mikołaj Patalong, Patrik Senica, Pau Ladero Palacio, Saloni Mitra, Sara Suarez Tostado
First published: 18 June 2026
Open Access - Differential Impacts of Methadone and Buprenorphine/Naloxone on Pain-Related Outcomes Among People With Non-Heroin Opioid Use Disorder: Secondary Analyses From a Pragmatic Canadian Multisite Trial
Katie Lyman, JinCheol Choi, Didier Jutras-Aswad, Bernard L. E. Foll, Sukhpreet Klaire, M. Eugenia Socias
First published: 18 June 2026
Open Access - Personality Functioning and Antisociality of Youth Accessing Residential Substance Use Withdrawal in Australia
Nathan Akoka, Ajibola Akintola, Alexandre A. Guerin, Ashley L. Dunne, Michael Daffern, Holly Bowman, Andrew Bruun, Enrico Cementon, Andrew Chanen, David Coghill, Amelia Lopatecki, Edward Mullen, Gillinder Bedi
First published: 17 June 2026
Open Access - Accuracy of Patient-Reported Exposure to New Psychoactive Substances and Other Illicit Drugs in Australian Emergency Departments: Findings From the Emerging Drugs Network of Australia
Marjan J. Nijmeijer, Jennifer L. Smith, Courtney Weber, Bas W. J. Bens, Daniel M. Fatovich, Shaun L. Greene, Jennifer L. Schumann, Paul Dessauer, Rebekka Syrjanen, Katherine Z. Isoardi, Keith Harris, Sam Alfred, Viet Tran, Ewoud ter Avest
First published: 15 June 2026
Open Access - Alcohol in the Workplace: A Qualitative Study of Employees' Experiences With Employer-Supported Alcohol Treatment
Isabella Pistone, Martina Martinez, Morten Sager, Kristina Berglund
First published: 11 June 2026
Open Access - Personalised Perception: The Effect of Personality on the Sensory Effects of Psychedelics
Alexander Boardman, Jai Whelan, Ryan D. Ward
First published: 10 June 2026
Open Access - Prevalence and Correlates of Reporting a Gabapentin Prescription for Pain Among People Who Use Opioids: A Longitudinal Community-Recruited Study
Evelyne Marie Piret, Heather Palis, Alexis Crabtree, JinCheol Choi, Kora DeBeck, Kanna Hayashi, Michael R. Law, M.-J. Milloy
First published: 10 June 2026
Open Access - Adapting ‘The Grog App’ to Ask Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples About Their Drinking in Primary Healthcare: A Delphi Study
Mustafa Al Ansari, Angela Dawson, Monika Dzidowska, James H. Conigrave, Annalee Stearne, Katherine M. Conigrave, Marguerite Tracy, Scott Wilson, Noel Hayman, Dan Wilson, Lynette Bullen, Jimmy Perry, Taleah Reynolds, Jocelyn Dhu, K. S. Kylie Lee
First published: 1 June 2026
Open Access - Prevalence of Unrecorded Alcohol Consumption and Associated Factors: Findings From a Nationally Representative Survey in Thailand in 2022
Sukhontha Siri, Nanapas Bhagaman, Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Jiraluck Nontarak
First published: 1 June 2026
Open Access - Experiences of a Pre-Treatment Sober Month in Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder Pursuing Controlled Drinking Goals
Stina Ingesson-Hammarberg, Sara Wallhed Finn, Anders Hammarberg, Magnus Johansson, Sven Andréasson, Christina Nehlin
First published: 31 May 2026
Alcohol Use and Women's Nutritional Status in India: Evidence From a Peer-Based Instrumental Variable Approach
Deepak Kumar, Manzoor Malik
First published: 31 May 2026
David Goodman-Meza, Marianne Martinello, Jeffrey Masters, Danielle Russell, Brendan Jacka, Gail V. Matthews, Gregory J. Dore
First published: 14 May 2026
Open Access - Association Between Perceived COVID-19 Risk and Current Use of Any Nicotine Product Amongst Adolescents in Saudi Arabia
Najim Z. Alshahrani, Abdullah M. Alarifi, Ibrahim Alasqah, Ahmed K. Shukri, Abdulrahman M. Albeshry, Mohannad A. Alzain, Abdullah Algarni, Mowffaq Mohammed Kalantan, Mohamed Terra, António Raposo, Nada Alqarawi, Sarah Almutairi, Mohamed Baklola
First published: 10 May 2026
Open Access - Do the Reasons People Drink Alcohol Aid Our Understanding of Sociodemographic Differences in Alcohol-Free and Low-Alcohol Consumption? A Path Analysis on a Cross-Sectional Study of Adult Alcohol Drinkers in Great Britain
Lucy Burke, Colin Angus, Jamie Brown, Inge Kersbergen
First published: 5 May 2026
Open Access - Alcohol Use Associated With Gambling Harm in a Population Representative Australian Sample
Koen Smit, Heng Jiang, Robin Room, Aino Suomi, Markus H. Hahn, Sarah MacLean, Anne-Marie Laslett
First published: 4 May 2026
Open Access - Developing and Applying a Typology of ‘Better for You’ Claims on Alcohol Products
Asad Yusoff, Simone Pettigrew, Bella Sträuli, Paula O'Brien, Jacqueline Bowden, Mark Petticrew, Alexandra Jones
First published: 1 May 2026
Case Reports
Open Access - Intranasal Mucosal Atomiser Devices: A Novel Harm Reduction Intervention
Hayden Green, Thileepan Naren, Brittany Chapman, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Sione Crawford, Dean Membrey
First published: 9 June 2026
Open Access - Safe Supply at Insite, North America's First Supervised Consumption Site: A Case Report of Reduced Harms From the Toxic Drug Supply in a Client Prescribed Powdered Fentanyl Alternative
Nadia Fairbairn, Elaine Hu, Mark Lysyshyn, Rupinder Brar, Elizabeth Holliday
First published: 14 May 2026
Commentaries
Open Access - Alcohol Use Disorder: A Confused Concept?
James Morris
First published: 25 May 2026
Open Access - Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Action: Lessons From a Dramatic Increase in Access to Alcohol
Norman Giesbrecht, Elizabeth K. Farkouh
First published: 14 May 2026
Drug and Alcohol Review - Clinician's Corner
Why is it hard to ask about drinking in primary care?
Asking about drinking and providing tailored brief intervention are recommended in primary care settings. However, this does not always take place in a routine way. Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, colonisation and experiences that followed such as racism, fear of adverse consequences (including child removal), feelings of shame and competing health priorities may further hinder alcohol screening and care. Previous studies have shown how health workers do not feel comfortable or equipped to ask people about their drinking or to offer a brief intervention. Even when screening occurs, accuracy may be an issue. Working out how much alcohol is consumed can be challenging if ‘non-standard’ containers are used (e.g. pannikin, sports or soft drink bottle), if drinks are shared, or if there is no ‘regular’ pattern of drinking.
Digital tools could have a role in asking about drinking
Digital tools have been shown as an option for culturally informed alcohol screening among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. One such tool is the Grog App, an accurate and acceptable screening tool for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to describe their drinking [1]. Using interactive visual functionality, the Grog App helps participants describe their drinking using their preferred alcohol type and container, converts their consumption to standard drinks, and provides a tailored brief intervention [2]. However, the Grog App was developed as a community survey tool and so is too long for routine use in primary care.
Efforts to shorten the Grog App for use in primary care
To shorten the Grog App for use in primary care, we conducted a three-round Delphi study. The Delphi panel consisted of 12 experts from around Australia, two-thirds of the panellists were Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, with an average of 18 years of experience working in primary care, 15 years in drug and alcohol, and 20 years working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
What did the Delphi panellists tell us?
The panel agreed that the ‘Grog Check’ app should be brief (less than 5 minutes) while still providing clinically relevant information. Overall, consensus was reached on 17 of the 24 proposed items. Some items endorsed for inclusion include asking about:
1. Pregnancy status
2. Alcohol-related harms (if the person has worries about their drinking)
3. Dependence (if the person has symptoms of dependence)
4. Context of drinking (if the person drinks more when happy, sad, alone, with others)
5. Dry periods (if the person has periods of not drinking)
6. Concurrent risk behaviours (if the person uses prescription medicines, illicit drugs or gambles while drinking)
Panellists also endorsed the inclusion of a ‘cheat-sheet’ for clinicians to guide interpretation of results and next steps.
What’s next?
These findings will inform the development of Grog Check, a culturally informed digital screening tool for us with Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples attending primary care. Future research [3] will evaluate the validity, acceptability and implementation of Grog Check in primary care.
Prepared on behalf of the investigator team by Mustafa Al Ansari and Kylie Lee
The full paper is available Open Access:
M. Al Ansari, A. Dawson, M. Dzidowska, et al., “Adapting ‘The Grog App’ to Ask Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples About Their Drinking in Primary Healthcare: A Delphi Study,” Drug and Alcohol Review45, no. 5 (2026): e70171, https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70171.
References
- Lee K, Conigrave J, Al Ansari M, Wilson S, Perry J, Zheng C, et al. Acceptability and feasibility of a computer-based application (‘App’) to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to describe their alcohol consumption. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. 2019;20(1):16-33.
- Lee K, Conigrave JH, Wilson S, Perry J, Hayman N, Chikritzhs T, et al. Deeper understandings of patterns of drinking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: Informing policy and practice. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 2023;34(4):883-8.
- Dzidowska M, Conigrave JH, Wilson S, Hayman N, Cook J, Gu L, et al. 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. 2025;20(1):70.