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Top 20 Downloaded Papers 2011

Title	Issue	Full text accesses
Time for a change: putting the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model to rest	Aug 2005	6,999
A randomized experiment to examine unintended consequences of dietary supplement use among daily smokers: taking supplements reduces self-regulation of smoking	Dec 2011	6,534
Online video game addiction: identification of addicted adolescent gamers	Jan 2011	6,476
Residual neurocognitive features of long-term ecstasy users with minimal exposure to other drugs	Apr 2011	5,340
Addiction's priorities when evaluating submissions	Mar 2011	4008
Non-medical use of prescription stimulants among US college students: prevalence and correlates from a national survey	Jan 2005	2,965
Drugs and addiction: An introduction to epigenetics	Mar 2011	2,704
The effects of binge drinking on college students' next-day academic test-taking performance and mood state	Apr 2010	2,462
Using theories of behaviour change to inform interventions for addictive behaviours	Nov 2010	2,215
Mephedrone, new kid for the chop?	Jan 2011	2,187
A review of the clinical pharmacology of methamphetamine	Jul 2009	2,100
The impact of parental problem drug use on children: what is the problem and what can be done to help?	May 2004	2,085
Commentary on Black et al.: Minimum pricing of alcohol - a solution whose time has come	Apr 2011	1,976
The acute effects of caffeinated versus non-caffeinated alcoholic beverage on driving performance and attention/reaction time	Feb 2011	1,975
Proposed diagnostic criteria for internet addiction	Mar 2010	1,929
The age-21 minimum legal drinking age: a case study linking past and current debates	Dec 2009	1,884
Reduction in alcohol consumption and health status	Jan 2011	1,882
Collateral damage from alcohol: implications of 'second-hand effects of drinking' for populations and health priorities	Aug 2010	1,829
The relation between different dimensions of alcohol consumption and burden of disease: an overview	May 2010	1,781
Warning: legal synthetic cannabinoid-receptor agonists such as JWH-018 may precipitate psychosis in vulnerable individuals	Oct 2010	1,780

Most cited papers 2009/2010

Article	Issue	Times cited in 2011	Times cited to date
Effects of beverage alcohol price and tax levels on drinking: a meta-analysis of 1003 estimates from 112 studies	Feb 2009	34	83
The relation between different dimensions of alcohol consumption and burden of disease: an overview	May 2010	28	56
Substance use disorder among older adults in the United States in 2020	Jan 2009	21	34
Retraining automatic action-tendencies to approach alcohol in hazardous drinkers	Feb 2010	18	30
How reactions to cigarette packet health warnings influence quitting: findings from the ITC Four-Country survey	Apr 2009	17	42
A review of the clinical pharmacology of methamphetamine	Jul 2009	17	41
Evidence for the effectiveness of sterile injecting equipment provision in preventing hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus transmission among injecting drug users: a review of reviews	May 2010	17	30
Mechanisms of change in motivational interviewing: a review and preliminary evaluation of the evidence	May 2009	16	48
Sexual orientation, substance use behaviors and substance dependence in the United States	Aug 2009	16	30
Carcinogenicity of acetaldehyde in alcoholic beverages: risk assessment outside ethanol metabolism	Apr 2009	15	35
The role of personality dispositions to risky behavior in predicting first-year college drinking	Feb 2009	15	34
Predictors of smoking relapse by duration of abstinence: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey	Dec 2009	15	26
Computer-based psychological treatment for comorbid depression and problematic alcohol and/or cannabis use: a randomized controlled trial of clinical efficacy	Mar 2009	14	29
Gender and alcohol consumption: patterns from the multinational GENACIS project	Sep 2009	14	29
Cognitive enhancement as a pharmacotherapy target for stimulant addiction	Jan-10	14	26
The dimensionality of alcohol use disorders and alcohol consumption in a cross-national perspective	Feb-10	11	19
Computer-delivered interventions to reduce college student drinking: a meta-analysis	Nov-09	14	21
Facilitating involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous during out-patient treatment: a randomized clinical trial	Mar-09	14	17
Can cocaine use be evaluated through analysis of wastewater? A nation-wide approach conducted in Belgium	May-09	13	28
Preventing heavy alcohol use in adolescents (PAS): cluster randomized trial of a parent and student intervention offered separately and simultaneously	Oct-09	13	24

Top 20 Downloaded Papers 2011

Most cited papers 2009/2010

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