Conducting collaborative research locally, nationally and globally.

Jürgen Rehm 2022

Rehm, J. 2022. Alcohol and arrhythmias: Implications for burden of disease estimates. Trends Cardiovasc Med, 32(4):246-247.

Rehm, J. 2022. Mental & addictive disorders - Even more important during & after the COVID-19 pandemic. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 154(4):548-550.

Rehm, J. 2022. Patterns of drinking and disease-free living: Only a problem for alcohol abusers? Lancet Reg Health Eur, 19:100432.

Rehm, J. & Room, R. 2022. Cultural specificity in alcohol use disorders. Lancet, 399(10327):e7-e8.

Rehm, J., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Sornpaisarn, B., Stelemekas, M., Swahn, M.H. & Lachenmeier, D.W. 2022. The impact of alcohol taxation changes on unrecorded alcohol consumption: A review and recommendations. Int J Drug Policy, 99:103420.

Rehm, J., O'Donnell, A., Kaner, E.F.S., Jane, L.E., Manthey, J. & Anderson, P. 2022. Differential impact of minimum unit pricing on alcohol consumption between Scottish men and women: controlled interrupted time series analysis. BMJ Open, 12(7):e054161.

Rehm, J., Shield, K.D., Bunova, A., Ferreira-Borges, C., Franklin, A., Gornyi, B., Rovira, P. & Neufeld, M. 2022. Prevalence of alcohol use disorders in primary healthcare facilities in Russia in 2019. Addiction, 117(6):1640-1646.

Rehm, J., Tran, A., Gobina, I., Janik-Koncewicz, K., Jiang, H., Kim, K.V., Liutkute-Gumarov, V., Miscikiene, L., Reile, R., Room, R., Stelemekas, M., Stoppel, R., Zatonski, W.A. & Lange, S. 2022. Do Alcohol Control Policies Have the Predicted Effects on Consumption? An Analysis of the Baltic Countries and Poland 2000-2020. Drug Alcohol Depend, 241:109682.

Allamani, A., Voller, F., Bravi, S., Pepe, P., Biffino, M., Buscema, P.M., Maurelli, G., Massini, G., Einstein, S., Manthey, J. & Rehm, J. 2022. Alcohol Addiction: One entity or different entities? A DSM-4-based attempt toward a geographicization of alcohol addiction and abuse. Alcohol Alcohol, 57(6):687-695.

Ali, F., Russell, C., Nafeh, F., Chaufan, C., Imtiaz, S., Rehm, J., Spafford, A. & Elton-Marshall, T. 2022. Youth substance use service provider's perspectives on use and service access in Ontario: time to reframe the discourse. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy, 17(1):9.

Babor, T.F., Casswell, S., Graham, K., Huckle, T., Livingston, M., Rehm, J., Room, R., Rossow, I. & Sornpaisarn, B. 2022. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-a summary of the third edition. Addiction, 117(12):3024-3036.

Barbosa, C., Dowd, W.N., Neuwahl, S.J., Rehm, J., Imtiaz, S. & Zarkin, G.A. 2022. Modeling the Impact of COVID-19 pandemic-driven increases in alcohol consumption on health outcomes and hospitalization costs in the United States. Addiction, 118(1):48-60.

Barry, R., Rehm, J., de Oliveira, C., Gozdyra, P., Chen, S. & Kurdyak, P. 2022. Rurality as a risk factor for attempted suicide and death by suicide in Ontario, Canada. Can J Psychiatry, 67(9):679-689.

Bloomfield, K., Kilian, C., Manthey, J., Rehm, J., Brummer, J. & Grittner, U. 2022. Changes in alcohol use in Denmark during the initial months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Further evidence of polarization of drinking responses. Eur Addict Res, 28(4):297-308.

Buckley, C., Ye, Y., Kerr, W.C., Mulia, N., Puka, K., Rehm, J. & Probst, C. 2022. Trends in mortality from alcohol, opioid, and combined alcohol and opioid poisonings by sex, educational attainment, and race and ethnicity for the United States 2000-2019. BMC Med, 20(1):405.

Bunova, A.S., Gornyi, B.E., Kushunina, D.V., Yurasova, E.D., Kalinina, A.M., Drapkina, O.M., Vujnovic, M., Ferreira-Borges, C., Rehm, J. & Neufeld, M. 2022. Identification of alcohol use disorders in primary health care: validation of the RUS-AUDIT-S self-report version. Profilakticheskaya Meditsina, 25(8):21-30.

Chrystoja, B.R., Monteiro, M., Rehm, J. & Shield, K. 2022. Alcohol-attributable burden of disease in the Americas in 2000 and 2016. J Stud Alcohol Drugs, 83(1):45-54.

Fares, A., Wickens, C.M., Mann, R.E., Di Ciano, P., Wright, M., Matheson, J., Hasan, O.S.M., Rehm, J., George, T.P., Samokhvalov, A.V., Shuper, P.A., Huestis, M.A., Stoduto, G., Brown, T., Stefan, C., Rubin-Kahana, D.S., Le Foll, B. & Brands, B. 2022. Combined effect of alcohol and cannabis on simulated driving. Psychopharmacology, 239(5):1263-1277.

Fischer, B., Robinson, T., Bullen, C., Curran, V., Jutras-Aswad, D., Medina-Mora, M.E., Pacula, R.L., Rehm, J., Room, R., Brink, W.v.d. & Hall, W. 2022. Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG) for reducing health harms from non-medical cannabis use: A comprehensive evidence and recommendations update. International Journal of Drug Policy, 99:103381.

Frischknecht, U., Hoffmann, S., Steinhauser, A., Lindemann, C., Buchholz, A., Manthey, J., Schulte, B., Rehm, J., Kraus, L., Verthein, U., Reimer, J. & Kiefer, F. 2022. [Screening for Problematic Alcohol Consumption - A Survey on Guideline Implementation in Transdisciplinary Health Care of a Model Region]. Gesundheitswesen, 84(1):43-51.

Galkus, L., Lange, S., Liutkute-Gumarov, V., Miscikiene, L., Petkeviciene, J., Rehm, J., Stelemekas, M., Tran, A. & Vaitkeviciute, J. 2022. The comprehensive alcohol advertising ban in Lithuania: A case study of social media. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(19).

Guiraud, J., Addolorato, G., Antonelli, M., Aubin, H.J., de Bejczy, A., Benyamina, A., Cacciaglia, R., Caputo, F., Dematteis, M., Ferrulli, A., Goudriaan, A.E., Gual, A., Lesch, O.M., Maremmani, I., Mirijello, A., Nutt, D.J., Paille, F., Perney, P., Poulnais, R., Raffaillac, Q., Rehm, J., Rolland, B., Rotondo, C., Scherrer, B., Simon, N., Skala, K., Soderpalm, B., Somaini, L., Sommer, W.H., Spanagel, R., Vassallo, G.A., Walter, H. & van den Brink, W. 2022. Sodium oxybate for the maintenance of abstinence in alcohol-dependent patients: An international, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Psychopharmacol, 36(10):1136-1145.

Imtiaz, S., Hamilton, H.A., Jankowicz, D., Nigatu, Y.T., Rehm, J., Wells, S., Wickens, C.M. & Elton-Marshall, T. 2022. Cannabis use, increased cannabis use, and cannabis use frequency in the context of the novel coronavirus disease pandemic in Canada (May 2020 to March 2021). Canadian Journal of Addiction, 13(2):23-27.

Imtiaz, S., Wells, S., Rehm, J., Wickens, C.M., Hamilton, H., Nigatu, Y.T., Jankowicz, D. & Elton-Marshall, T. 2022. Daily cannabis use during the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Canada: a repeated cross-sectional study from May 2020 to December 2020. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy, 17(1):14.

Jiang, H., Feng, X., Lange, S., Tran, A., Manthey, J. & Rehm, J. 2022. Estimating effects of health policy interventions using interrupted time-series analyses: a simulation study. BMC Med Res Methodol, 22(1):235.

Jutras-Aswad, D., Le Foll, B., Ahamad, K., Lim, R., Bruneau, J., Fischer, B., Rehm, J., Wild, T.C., Wood, E., Brissette, S., Gagnon, L., Fikowski, J., Ledjiar, O., Masse, B., Socias, M.E. & Optima Research Group within the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse 2022. Flexible Buprenorphine/Naloxone Model of Care for Reducing Opioid Use in Individuals With Prescription-Type Opioid Use Disorder: An Open-Label, Pragmatic, Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Psychiatry, 179(10):726-739.

Kilian, C., Neufeld, M., Manthey, J., Alavidze, S., Bobrova, A., Baron-Epel, O., Berisha, M., Bilici, R., Davletov, K., Isajeva, L., Kantas Yilmaz, F., Karatkevich, T., Mereke, A., Music Milanovic, S., Galstyan, K., Muslic, L., Okoliyski, M., Shabani, Z., Stelemekas, M., Sturua, L., Sznitman, S.R., Unubol, B., Ferreira-Borges, C. & Rehm, J. 2022. Self-reported changes in alcohol and tobacco use during COVID-19: findings from the eastern part of WHO European Region. Eur J Public Health.

Kilian, C., O'Donnell, A., Potapova, N., López-Pelayo, H., Schulte, B., Miquel, L., Paniello Castillo, B., Schmidt, C.S., Gual, A., Rehm, J. & Manthey, J. 2022. Changes in alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: A meta-analysis of observational studies. Drug and Alcohol Review, 41(4):918-931.

Kilian, C., Rovira, P., Neufeld, M., Manthey, J. & Rehm, J. 2022. [Potential impact of increased alcohol taxes on the alcohol-attributable burden of disease in Germany: a modelling study]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz, 65(6):668-676.

Kokole, D., Jane-Llopis, E., Natera Rey, G., Aguilar, N.B., Medina Aguilar, P.S., Mejia-Trujillo, J., Mora, K., Restrepo, N., Bustamante, I., Piazza, M., O'Donnell, A., Solovei, A., Mercken, L., Schmidt, C.S., Lopez-Pelayo, H., Matrai, S., Braddick, F., Gual, A., Rehm, J., Anderson, P. & de Vries, H. 2022. Training Primary Health Care Providers in Colombia, Mexico and Peru to Increase Alcohol Screening: Mixed-Methods Process Evaluation of Implementation Strategy. Implement Res Pract, 3.

Lange, S., Jiang, H., Bagge, C., Probst, C., Tran, A. & Rehm, J. 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. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 57(4):721-726.

Lange, S., Kaplan, M.S., Tran, A. & Rehm, J. 2022. Growing alcohol use preceding death by suicide among women compared with men: age-specific temporal trends, 2003-18. Addiction, 117(9):2530-2536.

Lange, S., Rehm, J., Tran, A., Bagge, C.L., Jasilionis, D., Kaplan, M.S., Mesceriakova-Veliuliene, O., Stelemekas, M. & Probst, C. 2022. Comparing gender-specific suicide mortality rate trends in the United States and Lithuania, 1990-2019: putting one of the "deaths of despair" into perspective. BMC Psychiatry, 22(1):127.

Lange, S., Roerecke, M., Orpana, H., Bagge, C. & Rehm, J. 2022. Alcohol use and the gender-specific risk of suicidal behavior: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. Syst Rev, 11(1):279.

Lasserre, A.M., Imtiaz, S., Roerecke, M., Heilig, M., Probst, C. & Rehm, J. 2022. Socioeconomic status, alcohol use disorders, and depression: A population-based study. J Affect Disord, 301:331-336.

Lemp, J.M., Pengpid, S., Buntup, D., Barnighausen, T.W., Geldsetzer, P., Peltzer, K., Rehm, J., Sornpaisarn, B. & Probst, C. 2022. Addressing alcohol use among blood pressure patients in Thai primary care: Lessons from a survey-based stakeholder consultation. Prev Med Rep, 29:101954.

Llamosas-Falcon, L., Manthey, J. & Rehm, J. 2022. Changes in alcohol consumption in Spain between 1990 and 2019. Adicciones, 34(1):61-72.

Manthey, J., Carr, S., Anderson, P., Bautista, N., Braddick, F., O'Donnell, A., Jane-Llopis, E., Lopez-Pelayo, H., Medina, P., Mejia-Trujillo, J., Perez-Gomez, A., Piazza, M., Rehm, J., Solovei, A., Rey, G.N., de Vries, H. & Schulte, B. 2022. Reduced alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of 17 000 patients seeking primary health care in Colombia and Mexico. J Glob Health, 12:05002.

Manthey, J., Shield, K. & Rehm, J. 2022. Alcohol and Health. Lancet, 400(10365):1764-1765.

Neufeld, M., Ferreira-Borges, C., Bunova, A., Gornyi, B., Fadeeva, E., Koshkina, E., Nadezhdin, A., Tetenova, E., Vujnovic, M., Yurasova, E. & Rehm, J. 2022. Capturing Russian drinking patterns with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: An exploratory interview study in primary healthcare and narcology centers in Moscow. PLoS One, 17(11):e0274166.

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 modelling study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 15:100325.

Probst, C., Konen, M., Rehm, J. & Sudharsanan, N. 2022. Alcohol-attributable deaths help drive growing socioeconomic inequalities In US life expectancy, 2000-18. Health Aff (Millwood), 41(8):1160-1168.

Puka, K., Buckley, C., Mulia, N., Purshouse, R.C., Lasserre, A.M., Kerr, W., Rehm, J. & Probst, C. 2022. Behavioral stability of alcohol consumption and sociodemographic correlates of change among a nationally representative cohort of us adults. Addiction, 118(1):61-70.

Rovira, P., Belian, G., Ferreira-Borges, C., Kilian, C., Neufeld, M., Tran, A., Štelemėkas, M. & Rehm, J. 2022. Alcohol taxation, alcohol consumption and cancers in Lithuania: A case study. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 0(0):14550725211021318.

Russell, C., Law, J., Bonn, M., Rehm, J. & Ali, F. 2022. The increase in benzodiazepine-laced drugs and related risks in canada: The urgent need for effective and sustainable solutions. Int J Drug Policy, 111:103933.

Russell, C., Nafeh, F., Pang, M., MacDonald, S.F., Derkzen, D., Rehm, J. & Fischer, B. 2022. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) experiences and release plans among federally incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) in Ontario, Canada: a mixed-methods study. BMC Public Health, 22(1):436.

Shield, K.D., Chrystoja, B.R., Ali, S., Sohi, I., Rehm, J., Nigatu, Y.T., Elton-Marshall, T., Hamilton, H., Jankowicz, D. & Wells, S. 2022. Changes in Alcohol Consumption in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associations With Anxiety and Self-Perception of Depression and Loneliness. Alcohol Alcohol, 57(2):190-197.

Shield, K.D. & Rehm, J. 2022. Commentary on Di Castelnuovo et al.: The internal and external validity of cohort studies that measure J-shaped curves for all-cause mortality. Addiction, 117(2):326-327.

Shuper, P.A., Varatharajan, T., Kinitz, D.J., Gesink, D., Joharchi, N., Bogoch, II, Loutfy, M. & Rehm, J. 2022. Perceived influence of alcohol consumption, substance use, and mental health on PrEP adherence and condom use among PrEP-prescribed gay, bisexual, and other men-who-have-sex-with-men: a qualitative investigation. BMC Public Health, 22(1):1875.

Socias, M.E., Wood, E., Le Foll, B., Lim, R., Choi, J.C., Mok, W.Y., Bruneau, J., Rehm, J., Wild, T.C., Bozinoff, N., Hassan, A., Jutras-Aswad, D. & Optima Research Group within the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse 2022. Impact of fentanyl use on initiation and discontinuation of methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone among people with prescription-type opioid use disorder: secondary analysis of a Canadian treatment trial. Addiction, 117(10):2662-2672.

Sohi, I., Chrystoja, B.R., Rehm, J., Wells, S., Monteiro, M., Ali, S. & Shield, K.D. 2022. Changes in alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic and previous pandemics: A systematic review. Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 46(4):498-513.

Solovei, A., Manthey, J., Anderson, P., Mercken, L., Jane Llopis, E., Natera Rey, G., Perez Gomez, A., Mejia Trujillo, J., Bustamante, I., Piazza, M., Perez de Leon, A., Arroyo, M., de Vries, H., Rehm, J. & Evers, S. 2022. costs of an alcohol measurement intervention in three Latin American countries. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(2).

Somé, N.H., Wells, S., Felsky, D., Hamilton, H.A., Ali, S., Elton-Marshall, T. & Rehm, J. 2022. Self-reported mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with alcohol and cannabis use: a latent class analysis. BMC Psychiatry, 22(1):306.

Sornpaisarn, B., Lamyai, W., Ratchadapunnathikul, C., Angkurawaranon, C., Dejkriengkraikul, N. & Rehm, J. 2022. Essential and urgent policy and research and initial policy recommendations regarding the medical cannabis policy in Thailand. Journal of Health Systems Research, 16(1):34-53.

Sornpaisarn, B., Parvez, N., Chatakan, W., Thitiprasert, W., Precha, P., Kongsakol, R., Saengow, U. & Rehm, J. 2022. Methods and factors influencing successful smoking cessation in Thailand: A case-control study among smokers at the community level. Tob Induc Dis, 20:67.

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Kim, K.V., Room, R., Stelemekas, M., Lange, S., Rovira, P. & Rehm, J. 2022. Predicting the impact of alcohol taxation increases on mortality-a comparison of different estimation techniques. Alcohol Alcohol, 57(4):500-507.

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Livingston, M., Manthey, J., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Stelemekas, M., Telksnys, T., Petkeviciene, J., Radisauskas, 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 Alcohol, 57(4):513-519.

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 cirrhosis mortality? An interrupted time-series analysis in Lithuania. Liver International, 42(4):765-774.

Tran, A., Stoppel, R., Jiang, H., Kim, K.V., Lange, S., Petkeviciene, J., Radisauskas, R., Stelemekas, 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(1):1984.

Wickens, C.M., Mann, R.E., Brands, B., Stoduto, G., Matheson, J., Sayer, G., Burston, J., Pan, J.F., Di Ciano, P., George, T.P., Rehm, J., Kenney, C., Soule, D., Huestis, M.A. & Le Foll, B. 2022. Influence of personality on acute smoked cannabis effects on simulated driving. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol, 30(5):547-559.

Wickens, C.M., Wright, M., Mann, R.E., Brands, B., Di Ciano, P., Stoduto, G., Fares, A., Matheson, J., George, T.P., Rehm, J., Shuper, P.A., Sproule, B., Samohkvalov, A., Huestis, M.A. & Le Foll, B. 2022. Separate and combined effects of alcohol and cannabis on mood, subjective experience, cognition and psychomotor performance: A randomized trial. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 118:110570.

Zafar, A., Rehm, J., Feng, X., Jiang, H., Kim, K.V., Manthey, J., Radisauskas, R., Stelemekas, M., Petkeviciene, J., Tran, A. & Lange, S. 2022. The impact of alcohol control policy on pneumonia mortality in Lithuania: An interrupted time-series analysis. Epidemiol Infect, 150:1-25.

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