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John Strang is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant concentration on epidemiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, anesthesiology and pain medicine, and emergency medicine.

The core themes of their work cover a range of topics including opioid use disorder treatment, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, HIV related to drug use and sexual risk, pain management and opioid use, homelessness and social issues, digital mental health interventions, and forensic toxicology and drug analysis.

They have contributed extensively to academic literature, with notable publications such as:

  • Opioid use disorder, 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Brief Report: Increased Addictive Internet and Substance Use Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China, 2020, American Journal on Addictions
  • Internet Addiction Increases in the General Population During COVID-19: Evidence From China, 2021, American Journal on Addictions
  • Editorial: Challenges to Opioid Use Disorders During COVID-19, 2020, American Journal on Addictions
  • Global opioid agonist treatment: a review of clinical practices by country, 2020, Addiction

They frequently publish in the following venues:

  • Addiction
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Drug and Alcohol Review
  • American Journal on Addictions
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Their collaborative work involves several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Joanne Neale
  • Nicola Metrebian
  • Stephen Parkin
  • Basak Tas
  • Nicola J. Kalk

Best Publications

  • The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS): psychometric properties of the SDS in English and Australian samples of heroin, cocaine and amphetamine users.

    Michael Gossop;Shane Darke;Paul Griffiths;Julie Hando

  • The Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP):A brief instrument for assessing treatment outcome.

    John Marsden;Michael Gossop;Duncan Stewart;David Best

  • Understanding reasons for drug use amongst young people: a functional perspective

    Annabel Boys;John Marsden;John Strang

  • The efficacy of single-session motivational interviewing in reducing drug consumption and perceptions of drug-related risk and harm among young people: results from a multi-site cluster randomized trial.

    Jim McCambridge;John Strang

  • Opioid use disorder.

    John Strang;John Strang;Nora D. Volkow;Louisa Degenhardt;Matthew Hickman

  • Drug Policy and the Public Good

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

  • Brief Report: Increased Addictive Internet and Substance Use Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China.

    Yan Sun;Yangyang Li;Yanping Bao;Shiqiu Meng

  • Fortnightly Review: Methadone maintenance treatment in opiate dependence: a review

    M Farrell;J Ward;R Mattick;W Hall

  • Prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, and treatment of substance use in young people

    Emily Stockings;Wayne D Hall;Wayne D Hall;Michael Lynskey;Katherine I Morley

  • Global, regional, and country-level coverage of interventions to prevent and manage HIV and hepatitis C among people who inject drugs: a systematic review

    Sarah Larney;Amy Peacock;Janni Leung;Samantha Colledge

  • Reaching hidden populations of drug users by privileged access interviewers: methodological and practical issues

    Peter Griffiths;Michael Gossop;B Powis;John Strang

  • Are take-home naloxone programmes effective? Systematic review utilizing application of the Bradford Hill criteria.

    Rebecca McDonald;John Strang

  • Severity of dependence and route of administration of heroin, cocaine and amphetamines

    Michael Gossop;Paul Griffiths;Beverly Powis;John Strang

  • Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders without Intellectual Disability.

    John F. Strang;Lauren Kenworthy;Peter Daniolos;Laura Case

  • Loss of tolerance and overdose mortality after inpatient opiate detoxification: follow up study

    John Strang;Jim McCambridge;David Best;Tracy Beswick

  • Risk of death during and after opiate substitution treatment in primary care: prospective observational study in UK General Practice Research Database

    Rosie Cornish;John Macleod;John Strang;Peter Vickerman;Peter Vickerman

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

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

  • Brief, Personality-Targeted Coping Skills Interventions and Survival as a Non-Drug User Over a 2-Year Period During Adolescence

    Patricia J. Conrod;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;John Strang

  • Randomized controlled effectiveness trial of executive function intervention for children on the autism spectrum.

    Lauren Kenworthy;Lauren Kenworthy;Laura Gutermuth Anthony;Laura Gutermuth Anthony;Daniel Q. Naiman;Lynn Cannon

  • Estimating the burden of disease attributable to injecting drug use as a risk factor for HIV, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Louisa Degenhardt;Fiona Charlson;Fiona Charlson;Jeff Stanaway;Sarah Larney

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Gossop
Michael Gossop King's College London
John Marsden
John Marsden King's College London
David Best
David Best University of Derby
Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell University of New South Wales
Joanne Neale
Joanne Neale King's College London
Jim McCambridge
Jim McCambridge University of York
Nicholas Lintzeris
Nicholas Lintzeris University of Sydney
Benedikt Fischer
Benedikt Fischer University of Auckland
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
David R. Foxcroft
David R. Foxcroft Oxford Brookes University

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