Published in Drug Alcohol Rev on November 01, 2006
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Global mortality associated with rotavirus disease among children in 2004. J Infect Dis (2009) 3.63
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 3.59
Developing the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 3.31
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Reducing the global burden of hazardous alcohol use: a comparative cost-effectiveness analysis. J Stud Alcohol (2004) 2.38
Viewpoint: evaluating the impact of malaria control efforts on mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Trop Med Int Health (2007) 2.36
Alcohol as a correlate of unprotected sexual behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS: review and meta-analysis. AIDS Behav (2009) 2.33
Alcohol consumption and risk of incident human immunodeficiency virus infection: a meta-analysis. Int J Public Health (2009) 2.23
Causal considerations on alcohol and HIV/AIDS--a systematic review. Alcohol Alcohol (2010) 2.22
Changes in illicit opioid use across Canada. CMAJ (2006) 2.20
Illicit opioid use and its key characteristics: a select overview and evidence from a Canadian multisite cohort of illicit opioid users (OPICAN). Can J Psychiatry (2006) 2.16
Carcinogenicity of acetaldehyde in alcoholic beverages: risk assessment outside ethanol metabolism. Addiction (2009) 2.06
Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers? PLoS Med (2008) 2.06
Age, period and cohort influences on beer, wine and spirits consumption trends in the US National Alcohol Surveys. Addiction (2004) 2.01
The burden of cancer attributable to alcohol drinking. Int J Cancer (2006) 2.01
Age-period-cohort modelling of alcohol volume and heavy drinking days in the US National Alcohol Surveys: divergence in younger and older adult trends. Addiction (2009) 1.98
Alcohol attributable burden of incidence of cancer in eight European countries based on results from prospective cohort study. BMJ (2011) 1.94
Alcohol consumption and non-communicable diseases: epidemiology and policy implications. Addiction (2011) 1.93
Multicentre study of acute alcohol use and non-fatal injuries: data from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries. Bull World Health Organ (2006) 1.90
Heroin-assisted treatment as a response to the public health problem of opiate dependence. Eur J Public Health (2002) 1.89
Comparing alcohol consumption in central and eastern Europe to other European countries. Alcohol Alcohol (2007) 1.89
Survey of non-prescribed use of antibiotics for children in an urban community in Mongolia. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.88
How stable is the risk curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality and what factors influence the shape? A precision-weighted hierarchical meta-analysis. Eur J Epidemiol (2003) 1.85
Lower Risk Cannabis use Guidelines for Canada (LRCUG): a narrative review of evidence and recommendations. Can J Public Health (2011) 1.81
Effects of depression and social integration on the relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality. Addiction (2002) 1.78
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Alcohol consumption, unprovoked seizures, and epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Epilepsia (2010) 1.73
Illicit opioid use in Canada: comparing social, health, and drug use characteristics of untreated users in five cities (OPICAN study). J Urban Health (2005) 1.73
Use of other opioids during methadone therapy: a population-based study. Addiction (2012) 1.72
Cannabis use and cannabis use disorders and their relationship to mental disorders: a 10-year prospective-longitudinal community study in adolescents. Drug Alcohol Depend (2007) 1.71
Adult mortality attributable to preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases and injuries in Japan: a comparative risk assessment. PLoS Med (2012) 1.70
Differences and over-time changes in levels of prescription opioid analgesic dispensing from retail pharmacies in Canada, 2005-2010. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2011) 1.69
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Designing verbal autopsy studies. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.64
The burden of death, disease, and disability due to alcohol in New Zealand. N Z Med J (2005) 1.61
What can the Swiss and Dutch trials tell us about the potential risks associated with heroin prescribing? Drug Alcohol Rev (2003) 1.57
Alcohol as a risk factor for pancreatitis. A systematic review and meta-analysis. JOP (2009) 1.57
Hepatitis C virus transmission among oral crack users: viral detection on crack paraphernalia. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol (2008) 1.56
Multi-level analysis of alcohol-related injury among emergency department patients: a cross-national study. Addiction (2005) 1.53
Age-period-cohort influences on trends in past year marijuana use in the US from the 1984, 1990, 1995 and 2000 National Alcohol Surveys. Drug Alcohol Depend (2006) 1.52
Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet HIV (2016) 1.51
Using latent class analysis (LCA) to analyze patterns of drug use in a population of illegal opioid users. Drug Alcohol Depend (2006) 1.51
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Alcohol-attributable cancer deaths and years of potential life lost in the United States. Am J Public Health (2013) 1.46
Crack across Canada: Comparing crack users and crack non-users in a Canadian multi-city cohort of illicit opioid users. Addiction (2006) 1.45
Determinants of overdose incidents among illicit opioid users in 5 Canadian cities. CMAJ (2004) 1.44
Average volume of alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality in African Americans: the NHEFS cohort. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (2003) 1.42
Understanding the parameters of non-medical use of prescription drugs: moving beyond mere numbers. Addiction (2007) 1.42
Non-medical use of prescription opioids and public health in Canada: an urgent call for research and interventions development. Can J Public Health (2008) 1.41
Assessment of the risk of medium-term internal contamination in Minamisoma City, Fukushima, Japan, after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident. Environ Health Perspect (2014) 1.41
The effectiveness of psychosocial modalities in the treatment of alcohol problems in adults: a review of the evidence. Can J Psychiatry (2012) 1.40
Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) a decade later: a brief update on science and politics. J Urban Health (2007) 1.40
Does the association between alcohol consumption and depression depend on how they are measured? Alcohol Clin Exp Res (2007) 1.38
Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil (2010) 1.38
Keeping count: births, deaths, and causes of death. Lancet (2007) 1.36
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Australian guidelines for the treatment of adults with acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Aust N Z J Psychiatry (2007) 1.34
Acute intake of radionuclides immediately after the incident as the main contributor of the internal radiation exposure after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. JAMA Pediatr (2013) 1.32
Global alcohol exposure estimates by country, territory and region for 2005--a contribution to the Comparative Risk Assessment for the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study. Addiction (2013) 1.32
Behavioral interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV infection among sex workers and their clients in low- and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2012) 1.32
Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: I. Application of regional cancer survival model to estimate cancer mortality distribution by site. BMC Cancer (2002) 1.31