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Holland, Adam and Stevens, Alex and Harris, Magdalena and Lewer, Dan and Sumnall, Harry and Stewart, Daniel and Gilvarry, Eilish and Wiseman, Alice and Howkins, Joshua and McManus, Jim and Shorter, Gillian W and Nicholls, James and Scott, Jenny and Thomas, Kyla and Reid, Leila and Day, Edward and Horsley, Jason and Measham, Fiona and Rae, Maggie and Fenton, Kevin and Hickman, Matthew (2023) Analysis of the UK Government's 10-Year drugs strategy-a resource for practitioners and policymakers. Journal of Public Health, 45, (2), e215-e224. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdac114.

Keemink, Jolie R and Stevens, Alex and Shirley-Beavan, Sam and Khadjesari, Zarnie and Shorter, Gillian W (2025) Four decades of overdose prevention centres: lessons for the future from a realist review. Harm Reduction Journal, 22, 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01178-z.

Shorter, Gillian W and Harris, Magdalena and McAuley, Andrew and Trayner, Kirsten MJ and Stevens, Alex (2022) The United Kingdom's first unsanctioned overdose prevention site; a proof-of-concept evaluation. International Journal of Drug Policy, 104, 103670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103670.

Stevens, Alex (2020) Critical realism and the 'ontological politics of drug policy'. International Journal of Drug Policy, 84, 102723. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102723.

Stevens, Alex (2019) 'Being human' and the 'moral sidestep' in drug policy: explaining government inaction on opioid-related deaths in the UK. Addictive Behaviors, 90, pp. 444-450. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.08.036.

Stevens, Alex (2021) The politics of being an “expert”: a critical realist auto-ethnography of drug policy advisory panels in the UK. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology, https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.a536a85b.

Stevens, Alex (2021) The politics of being an ‘expert’: a critical realist auto-ethnography of drug policy advisory panels in the UK. Kent Academic Repository, 10, (2), pp. 1-31. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/84372.

Stevens, Alex (2019) Is policy 'liberalization' associated with higher odds of adolescent cannabis use? A re-analysis of data from 38 countries. International Journal of Drug Policy, 66, pp. 94-99.

Stevens, Alex (2018) Medical cannabis in the UK. BMJ, 363, (k4844), doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k4844.

Stevens, Alex (2012) The ethics and effectiveness of coerced treatment of people who use drugs. Human Rights and Drugs, 2, (1), pp. 7-15.

Stevens, Alex and Hendrie, Nadine and Bacon, Matthew and Parrott, Steve and Monaghan, Mark and Williams, Emma and Lewer, Dan and Moore, Amber and Berlin, Jenni and Cunliffe, Jack and Quinton, Paul (2023) Evaluating police drug diversion in England: protocol for a realist evaluation. Health & Justice, 11, 46. doi: 10.1186/s40352-023-00249-2.

Stevens, Alex and Hughes, Caitlin and Hulme, Shann and Cassidy, Rebecca (2022) Depenalization, diversion and decriminalization: a realist review and programme theory of alternatives to criminalization for simple drug possession. European Journal of Criminology, 19, (1), pp. 29-54.

Stevens, Alex and Keemink, Jolie R and Shirley-Beavan, Sam and Khadjesari, Zarnie and Artenie, Adelina and Vickerman, Peter and Southwell, Mat and Shorter, Gillian W (2024) Overdose prevention centres as spaces of safety, trust and inclusion: a causal pathway based on a realist review. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43, (6), pp. 1573-1591. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13908.

Stevens, Alex and Schreeche-Powell, Ed and Billingham, Luke and Irwin-Rogers, Keir (2025) Interventionitis in the criminal justice system: three English cases. Critical Criminology, Early online, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-024-09808-x.

Report

Hughes, Caitlin and Stevens, Alex and Hulme, Shann and Cassidy, Rebecca (2019) Review of approaches taken in Ireland and in other jurisdictions to simple possession drug offences. A report for the Irish Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Health. UNSW Australia and University of Kent.

Shorter, Gillian W and McKenna-Plumley, Phoebe and Campbell, Kerry BD and Keemink, Jolie R and Scher, Benjamin D and Cutter, Stephen and Khadjesari, Zarnie and Stevens, Alex and Artenie, Adelina and Vickerman, Peter and Boland, Philip and Miller, Nicole M and Campbell, Anne (2023) Overdose prevention centres, safe consumption sites, and drug consumption rooms: a rapid evidence review. London: Drug Science.

Stevens, Alex (2024) Opioids in Europe: preparing for a third wave. London: Brookings Institution.

Stevens, Alex (2013) Applying harm reduction principles to the policing of retail drug markets. Modernising drug law enforcement report 3. London: International Drug Policy Consortium.

Stevens, Alex and Bewley-Taylor, Dave (2009) Drug markets and urban violence: can tackling one reduce the other? Report 15. [Oxford]: The Beckley Foundation.

Stevens, Alex and O'Brien, Kate and Coulton, Simon (2013) RisKit programme- operation manual. Kent: University of Kent.

Book

Coulton, Simon and Nizalova, Olena and Pellatt-Higgins, Tracy and Stevens, Alex and Hendrie, Nadine and Marchand, Catherine and Vass, Rosa and Deluca, Paolo and Drummond, Colin and Ferguson, Jennifer and Waller, Gillian and Newbury-Birch, Dorothy (2023) A multicomponent psychosocial intervention to reduce substance use by adolescents involved in the criminal justice system: the RISKIT-CJS RCT. Public Health Research 11 (03). Southampton: National Institute for Health and Care Research.

Stevens, Alex (2010) Drugs, crime and public health: the political economy of drug policy. Taylor & Francis.