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73
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17232
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19695
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43

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Internal medicine
  • Psychiatry

Benedikt Fischer spends much of his time researching Psychiatry, Environmental health, Psychological intervention, Public health and Medical prescription. His study on Methadone maintenance, Heroin, Use Heroin and Substance abuse is often connected to Opioid use as part of broader study in Psychiatry. His work deals with themes such as Law enforcement, Health care and Cannabis, which intersect with Environmental health.

Benedikt Fischer interconnects Pharmacy, Modalities and PsycINFO in the investigation of issues within Psychological intervention. The study incorporates disciplines such as Mental health and Evidence-based medicine, MEDLINE in addition to Public health. His study explores the link between Harm reduction and topics such as Politics that cross with problems in Public relations.

His most cited work include:

  • Drug Policy and the Public Good (201 citations)
  • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate (187 citations)
  • Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions (176 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His main research concerns Psychiatry, Public health, Environmental health, Psychological intervention and Cannabis. His Public health research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Medical prescription, Demography, Epidemiology and Substance abuse. His Epidemiology study combines topics in areas such as Genotype and Hepatitis C virus.

His Environmental health research includes themes of Occupational safety and health and Harm. Benedikt Fischer has researched Psychological intervention in several fields, including Family medicine, Mental health and Clinical psychology. His Cannabis study incorporates themes from Legalization, Public opinion and MEDLINE.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Psychiatry (61.97%)
  • Public health (55.25%)
  • Environmental health (42.02%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Public health (55.25%)
  • Environmental health (42.02%)
  • Cannabis (32.14%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of investigation include Public health, Environmental health, Cannabis, Epidemiology and Psychiatry. He has included themes like Psychological intervention, Medical prescription, Demography and Intervention in his Public health study. He works mostly in the field of Medical prescription, limiting it down to topics relating to Methadone and, in certain cases, Fentanyl.

His work carried out in the field of Environmental health brings together such families of science as Logistic regression, Hepatitis C virus, Substance abuse, Occupational safety and health and Hepatitis B virus. His work on Cannabis use as part of general Cannabis research is frequently linked to Human factors and ergonomics, thereby connecting diverse disciplines of science. His work in the fields of Psychiatry, such as Heroin and Psychosocial, overlaps with other areas such as Naloxone and Paradigm shift.

Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Management of opioid use disorders: a national clinical practice guideline (130 citations)
  • Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: A Comprehensive Update of Evidence and Recommendations (127 citations)
  • Routes of administration for cannabis use – basic prevalence and related health outcomes: A scoping review and synthesis (85 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Internal medicine
  • Public health

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Public health, Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Cannabis and Psychological intervention. In the subject of general Public health, his work in Health psychology is often linked to Opioid overdose, thereby combining diverse domains of study. His research on Psychiatry frequently connects to adjacent areas such as Hepatic disorders.

The concepts of his Epidemiology study are interwoven with issues in Medical microbiology, Virology, High prevalence and Environmental health. His Cannabis research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Legalization, Demography, MEDLINE and Confidence interval. His Suicide prevention research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Injury prevention and Human factors and ergonomics.

Best Publications

  • Drug Policy and the Public Good

    Thomas F. Babor;Jonathan P. Caulkins;Griffith Edwards;Benedikt Fischer

  • Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: A Comprehensive Update of Evidence and Recommendations

    Benedikt Fischer;Cayley Russell;Pamela Sabioni;Wim van den Brink

  • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

    Robin Room;Benedikt Fischer;Wayne Hall;Simon Lenton

  • Management of opioid use disorders: a national clinical practice guideline

    Julie Bruneau;Keith Ahamad;Marie-Ève Goyer;Ginette Poulin

  • The Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada 2002

    Jürgen Rehm;D Baliunas;S Brochu;B Fischer

  • Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions

    John Strang;Thomas Babor;Jonathan Caulkins;Jonathan Caulkins;Benedikt Fischer;Benedikt Fischer

  • Routes of administration for cannabis use – basic prevalence and related health outcomes: A scoping review and synthesis

    Cayley Russell;Sergio Rueda;Sergio Rueda;Robin Room;Robin Room;Mark Tyndall

  • The effectiveness of compulsory drug treatment: A systematic review

    D. Werb;D. Werb;A. Kamarulzaman;M.C. Meacham;C. Rafful

  • Barriers associated with the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection among illicit drug users

    Jason Grebely;Jason Grebely;Krista A. Genoway;Krista A. Genoway;Jesse D. Raffa;Gurbir Dhadwal

  • Low uptake of treatment for hepatitis C virus infection in a large community-based study of inner city residents.

    J. Grebely;J. D. Raffa;C. Lai;M. Krajden

  • Illicit opioid use in Canada: Comparing social, health, and drug use characteristics of untreated users in five cities (OPICAN study)

    Benedikt Fischer;Jürgen Rehm;Suzanne Brissette;Serge Brochu

  • The costs of alcohol, illegal drugs, and tobacco in Canada, 2002

    Jürgen Rehm;William Gnam;Svetlana Popova;Dolly Baliunas

  • Prescription opioid related misuse, harms, diversion and interventions in Canada: a review.

    Benedikt Fischer;Elena Argento

  • Non-medical use of prescription opioids and prescription opioid-related harms: why so markedly higher in North America compared to the rest of the world?

    Benedikt Fischer;Annette Keates;Gerhard Bühringer;Jens Reimer

  • Changes in illicit opioid use across Canada

    Benedikt Fischer;Jürgen Rehm;Jayadeep Patra;Michelle Firestone Cruz

  • Smoking of crack cocaine as a risk factor for HIV infection among people who use injection drugs

    Kora DeBeck;Thomas Kerr;Kathy Li;Benedikt Fischer

  • Drug use, risk and urban order: examining supervised injection sites (SISs) as 'governmentality'

    Benedikt Fischer;Benedikt Fischer;Sarah Turnbull;Blake Poland;Emma Haydon;Emma Haydon

  • Health outcomes associated with crack-cocaine use: Systematic review and meta-analyses

    Ainslie J. Butler;Jürgen Rehm;Benedikt Fischer

  • Changes in illicit opioid use profiles across Canada

    B Fischer;Jürgen Rehm;J Patra;M Firestone Cruz

  • Heroin-assisted treatment as a response to the public health problem of opiate dependence

    Benedikt Fischer;Jürgen Rehm;Jürgen Rehm;Maritt Kirst;Miguel Casas

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Rehm
Jürgen Rehm University of Toronto
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
John Strang
John Strang King's College London
Mark W. Tyndall
Mark W. Tyndall University of British Columbia
David R. Foxcroft
David R. Foxcroft Oxford Brookes University
Ingeborg Rossow
Ingeborg Rossow Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Keith Humphreys
Keith Humphreys Stanford University
Peter Reuter
Peter Reuter University of Maryland, College Park
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Jonathan P. Caulkins Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas F. Babor
Thomas F. Babor University of Connecticut

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