. European Journal of Public Health

Rehm, J., Hassan, A. S., Correia, D., Manthey, J., Rovira, P., Shield, K.D., Ferreira-Borges, C., Neufeld, M., & Štelemėkas, M. (2025 in review). Alcohol excise taxation, tax share, and revenue in the European Union and the UK in 2022: an overview and modelling analysis.

Drug and Alcohol Review

Rehm, J., Hassan, A. S., Rovira, P., de Oliveira, C., Lange, S., Thompson, M.J., Tamutienė, I., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Galkus, L., & Štelemėkas, M. (2025 in review). A return on investment analysis for the 2017 increase in alcohol excise taxation in Lithuania. Addiction

Rehm, J., Reile, R., Correia, D., Neufeld, M., & Jiang, H. (2025 accepted). Evaluation of the national alcohol control strategy (Green Paper on Alcohol Policy) of Estonia. Drug and Alcohol Review

Rehm, J., Lange,

S. & Trišauskė, J. (2024). The prevalence of alcohol-related deaths in autopsies performed in Lithuania between 2017 and 2020: A cross-sectional study. European Journal of Public Health, 34(5):979-985. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckae059

Rehm, J., Badaras, R., Hassan, A.S., Lange, S., Tran, A., Stelemekas, M. & Jiang, H. (2024). Polarization of alcohol consumption or coding changes as the cause of the increase in 100% alcohol-attributable deaths in Lithuania during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Health Inequalities, 10(2):162-165. doi:10.5114/jhi.2024.145604

Rehm, J., Gobina, I., Janik-Koncewicz, K., Jiang, H., Miscikiene, L., Petkeviciene, J., Radisauskas, R., Reile, R., Stelemekas, M., Tran, A., Trisauske, J., Zatoński, W. & Lange, S. (2024). Estimating the impact of availability restrictions and taxation increases on alcohol consumption, 100% alcohol-attributable and all-cause mortality in the Baltic countries and Poland 2001-2020. Journal of Health Inequalities, 10(1):12-16. doi:10.5114/jhi.2024.140837

Rehm, J., Lange, S., Miščikienė, L. & Jiang, H. (2024 Epub ahead of print). The impact of an integrated alcohol policy: The example of Lithuania. Drug and Alcohol Review, doi: 10.1111/dar.13980

Rehm, J., Rovira, P., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Shield, K.D., Tran, A. & Štelemėkas, M. (2024). Trends of alcohol-attributable deaths in Lithuania 2001–2021: Epidemiology and policy conclusions. BMC Public Health, 24(1):774. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-18237-y

Rehm, J., Tran, A., Hassan, A.S., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Reile, R. & ŠtelemĖkas, M. (2024 Epub ahead of print). Trends of fully alcohol-attributable mortality rates before and during COVID-19 in the Baltic and other European countries. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, doi: 10.1177/14034948241280772.

Reile, R. & Rehm, J. (2024). Does higher alcohol consumption affect attitudes towards alcohol control measures in Estonia? Public Health in Practice, 7:100455. doi: 10.1016/j.puhip.2023.100455

2022). Gender-specific risk relationship between heavy alcohol use/alcohol use disorders and suicidal thoughts and behavior among adults in the United States over time. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 57(4):721-6. doi: 10.1007/s00127-022-02225-x. 

Llamosas-Falcón, L., Probst, C., Buckley, C., Jiang, H., Lasserre, A. M., Puka, K., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (2022). Sex-specific association between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Gastroenterology, 1:1005729., doi: 10.3389/fgstr.2022.1005729.

Neufeld, M., Rovira, P., Ferreira-Borges, C., Kilian, C., Sassi, F., Veryga, A., & Rehm, J. (2022). Impact of introducing a minimum alcohol tax share in retail prices on alcohol-attributable mortality in the WHO European Region: A modeling study. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 15, 100325.doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100325

Petkeviciene, J., Kriaucioniene, V., & Raskiliene, A. (2022). Academic Achievements, Satisfaction with Studies and Risky Behaviours among First-Year Students of Kaunas (Lithuania) Universities, 2000–2017. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137616

Rehm, J., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Sornpaisarn, B., Štelemėkas, M., Swahn, M.H., & Lachenmeier, D.W. (2022). The impact of alcohol taxation changes on unrecorded alcohol consumption: A review and recommendations. International Journal of Drug Policy, 99,103420. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103420

Rehm J., Tran, A, Gobina, I.,Janik-Koncewicz, K., Jiang, H., Kim, K. V., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Miščikienė L., Reile, R., Room, R., Štelemėkas, M., Stoppel, R., Zatoński, W., Lange, S., (2022). Do alcohol control policies have the predicted effects on consumption? An analysis of the Baltic countries and Poland 2000-2020. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 241, 109682. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109682

Rovira, P., Belian, G., Ferreira-Borges, C., Kilian, C., Neufeld, M., Štelemėkas, M., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (2022). Alcohol taxation, alcohol consumption and cancers in Lithuania. A case study. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 39(1) 25–37. doi: 10.1177/14550725211021318 

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Kim, K.V., Room, R., Štelemėkas, M., Lange, S., Rovira, P., & Rehm, J. (2022). Predicting the impact of alcohol taxation increases on mortality – a comparison of different estimation techniques. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 57(4), 500–507. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agac003 

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Livingston, M., Manthey, J., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., & Rehm, J. (2022). The impact of increasing the minimum legal drinking age from 18 to 20 years in Lithuania on all-cause mortality in young adults – an interrupted time-series analysis. Alcohol and Alcoholism 57 (4), 513-519.doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agab076

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Manthey, J., Štelemėkas, M., Badaras, R., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Room, R., & Rehm, J., (2022). Can alcohol control policies reduce liver cirrhosis mortality? An interrupted time-series analysis in Lithuania. Liver International, 42(4),765–774. doi: 10.1111/liv.15151

Tran, A., Stoppel, R., Jiang, H., Kim, V., K., Lange, S., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Zafar, A., & Rehm, J., (2022). The temporal trend of cause-specific mortality: Comparing Estonia and Lithuania, 2001 – 2019. BMC Public Health, 22, 1984.doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14354-8

Vaičiūnas, T.; Žemaitaitytė, M.; Lange, S.; Štelemėkas, M.; Oja, L.; Petkevičienė, J.; Kowalewska, A.; Pudule, I.; Piksööt, J.; Šmigelskas, K. Trends in Adolescent Substance Use: Analysis of HBSC Data for Four Eastern European Countries, 1994–2018. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health  2022, 19, 15457. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192315457

Zafar, A., Rehm, J., Feng, X., Jiang, H., Kim, K. V., Manthey, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Petkevičienė, J., Tran, A., & Lange, S. (2022). The impact of alcohol control policy on pneumonia mortality in Lithuania: An interrupted time-series analysis. Epidemiology & Infection, 150. doi: 10.1017/s0950268822000711. 

A sex-specific time-series analysis for Lithuania. Archives of Suicide Research

, 27(2), 339-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2021.1999873

Manthey, J., Jasilionis, D., Jiang, H., Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, O., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Rehm, J., Štelemėkas, M. (2021). Interrupted time series analyses to assess the impact of alcohol control policy on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Lithuania:

A study protocol. BMJ Open, 11(12), e053497. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053497

Manthey, J., Solovei, A., Anderson, P., Carr, S., & Rehm, J. (2021). Can alcohol consumption in Germany be reduced by alcohol screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment in primary health care? Results of a simulation study. PLoS One, 16(8), e0255843. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255843

Neufeld, M., Bobrova, A., Davletov, K., Štelemėkas, M., Stoppel, R., Ferreira-Borges, C., Breda, J., & Rehm, J. (2021).  Alcohol control policies in Former Soviet Union countries – a narrative review of three decades of policy changes and their apparent effects.  Drug and Alcohol Review, 40(3), 350–367.  doi: 10.1111/dar.13204

Radišauskas, R., Kim, K.V., Lange, S., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, O., Petkevičienė, J., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (2021). Cardiovascular diseases mortality and alcohol control policy in Lithuania:

Exploring a possible link. BMC Public Health, 21(1, 2116. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12177-7

Rehm, J. & Purshouse, R.C. (2021). Causality and initiation of alcohol control policy.  A response to Allamani. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40(7), 1389-91. doi: 10.1111/dar.13371

Rehm, J., Štelemėkas, M., Ferreira-Borges, C., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Casswell, S., Tran, A., & Manthey, J. (2021).  Classifying alcohol control policies with respect to expected changes in consumption and alcohol-attributable harm:

The example of Lithuania. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 2419.  doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052419

Rehm, J., Štelemėkas, M., Kim, K.V., Zafar, A. & Lange, S. (2021).

 Alcohol and health in Central and Eastern EU

countries– status quo and alcohol policy options. Journal of Health Inequalities

, 7(2), 91–95. doi: 10.

5114/jhi.2021.113167

Štelemėkas, M., Manthey, J., Badaras, R., Casswell, S., Ferreira-Borges, C., Kalėdienė, R., Lange, S., Neufeld, M., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Room, R., Telksnys, T., Zurlytė, I., & Rehm, J. (2021).  Alcohol control policy measures and all-cause mortality in Lithuania:

An interrupted time-series analysis. Addiction, 116(10), 2673-2684. doi: 10.1111/add.15470

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Livingston, M., Manthey, J., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., & Rehm, J. (2021). The impact of increasing the minimum legal drinking age from 18 to 20 years in Lithuania on all-cause mortality in young adults – an interrupted time-series analysis. Alcohol and Alcoholism,  doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agab076

Tran, A., Manthey, J., Lange, S., Jiang, H., Štelemėkas, M., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, O., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Telksnys, T., & Rehm, J. (2021). Alcohol control policies add to secular trends in all-cause mortality rates in young adults. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 15127. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94562-1