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Shorter, Gillian W and Campbell, Kerry BD and Miller, Nicole M and Epton, Tracy and O'Hara, L and Millen, Sharon and Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson, Katarina and Berry, E and Bendtsen, Marcus (2024) Few interventions support the affected other on their own: a systematic review of individual level psychosocial interventions to support those harmed by others’ alcohol use. Internal Journal of Mental Health and Addiction , 22 , pp. 3538-3558.

Miller, Nicole M and Campbell, Claire and Shorter, Gillian W (2025) The role of prejudice and prior contact in support for evidence-based interventions to reduce drug-related deaths: a mixed methods study. Drug Science, Policy and Law , Early online .

Houghton, Frank and Moran Stritch, Jennifer and Campbell, Anne and Shorter, Gillian W (2025) An examination of support for more diverse alcohol warning labels (awls) in Ireland. Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health , 20 , (1) .

Boland, Philip and Sturm, Tristan and Shorter, Gillian W (2025) (Dealing with) illegal drugs and “unwanted land-use”: a socially inclusive future planning imagination for drug consumption rooms. Journal of Planning Education and Research , Early online .

Casswell, Sally and Parker, Karl and Randerson, Steve and Huckle, Taisia and Athauda, Lathika and Banavaram, Arvind and Callinan, Sarah and Campbell, Orfhlaith and Chaiyasong, Surasak and Dearak, Song and Romero -Garcia, Laura and Gururaj, Gopalkrishna and Kalapat, Romtawan and Karki, Khem and Karlsson, Thomas and Kong, Mom and Liu, Shiwei and Maldonado, Norman D and Gonzalez-Mejía, Juan Felipe and Naimi, Timothy and Nthomang, Keitseope and Oladunni, Opeyemi and Owino, Kwame and Herrera Palacio, Juan Camilo and Phatchana, Phasith and Pradhan, Pranil and Rossow, Ingeborg and Shorter, Gillian W and et al., (2025) Investigating indicators to assess and support alcohol taxation policy: results from the International Alcohol Control (IAC) study. International Journal of Health Policy and Management , 14 , (1) , pp. 1-8.

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.

Leung, June Yue Yan and Casswell, Sally and Randerson, Steve and Athauda, Lathika and Banavaram, Arvind and Callinan, Sarah and Campbell, Orfhlaith and Chaiyasong, Surasak and Dearak, Song and Dumbili, Emeka W and Romero-García, Laura and Gururaj, Gopalkrishna and Kalapat, Romtawan and Karki, Khem and Karlsson, Thomas and Kong, Mom and Liu, Shiwei and Maldonado Vargas, Norman Danilo and Gonzalez-Mejía, Juan Felipe and Naimi, Timothy and Nthomang, Keitseope and Oladunni, Opeyemi and Owino, Kwame and Herrera Palacio, Juan Camilo and Phatchana, Phasith and Pradhan, Pranil Man Singh and Rossow, Ingeborg and Shorter, Gillian W and Sibounheuang, Vanlounny and Štelemėkas, Mindaugas and Son, Dao The and Vallance, Kate and van Dalen, Wim and Wettlaufer, Ashley and Zamora, Arianne and Jankhotkaew, Jintana (2024) Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the International Alcohol Control Study. BMJ Global Health , 9 .

Crawford, Joel and Collier, Elizabeth and Cooke, Richard and Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson, Katarina and Shorter, Gillian W and Bendtsen, Marcus (2024) Assessing if motives-based vignettes influence plans for drinking and alcohol cues: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open , 14 , (11) .

Miller, Nicole M and Campbell, Claire and Shorter, Gillian W (2023) Barriers and facilitators of naloxone and safe injection facility interventions to reduce opioid drug-related deaths: a qualitative analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy , 117 .

Scher, Benjamin D and Chrisinger, Benjamin W and Humphreys, David K and Shorter, Gillian W (2025) Characterizing ‘atmosphere’: exploring determinants of regular service attendance amongst integrated supervised consumption site clients in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Harm Reduction Journal , Early online .

Casswell, Sally and Randerson, Steve and Parker, Karl and Huckle, Taisia and Callinan, Sarah and Campbell, Orfhlaith and Karlsson, Thomas and Rossow, Ingeborg and Shorter, Gillian W and Štelemėkas, Mindaugas and Vallance, Kate and van Dalen, Wim and Wettlaufer, Ashley (2025) Comparing alcohol policy environments in high-income jurisdictions with the International Alcohol Control Policy Index. Drug and Alcohol Review , 44 , (3) , pp. 881-890.

McGlinchey, Emily and Ross, Jana and Murphy, Dominic and Shorter, Gillian W and Armour, Cherie (2022) Disentangling the symptom-level nuances in comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and problematic alcohol use in Northern Irish military veterans: a network analysis. Journal of Traumatic Stress , 35 , (1) , pp. 32-41.

Bendtsen, Marcus and Garnett, Claire and Toner, Paul and Shorter, Gillian W (2023) The effect of question order on outcomes in the orbital core outcome set for alcohol brief interventions among online help-seekers (QOBCOS): findings from a randomised factorial trial. Digital Health , 9 .

Crawford, Joel and Collier, Elizabeth and Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson, Katarina and Shorter, Gillian W and McCambridge, Jim and Lundgren, Oskar and Bendtsen, Marcus (2025) Effects of a drinking motives and readiness to change tailored digital alcohol intervention among online help-seekers: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open , 15 , (7) .

Scher, Benjamin D and Chrisinger, Benjamin W and Humphreys, David K and Shorter, Gillian W (2024) Exploring drug consumption rooms as 'inclusion health interventions': policy implications for Europe. Harm Reduction Journal , 21 .

Scher, Benjamin D and Chrisinger, Benjamin W and Humphreys, David K and Shorter, Gillian W (2024) Exploring drug consumption rooms as ‘inclusion health interventions’: policy implications for Europe. Harm Reduction Journal , 21 .

Scher, Benjamin D and Southwell, Mat and Harris, Magdalena and Stevens, Alex and Chrisinger, Benjamin W and Humphreys, David K and Shorter, Gillian W (2025) Exploring the need for overdose prevention centers in England: a qualitative community-based participatory study on the perspectives of people who use drugs in public and semi-public environments. International Journal of Drug Policy , 140 .

Henihan, Anne Marie and McCombe, Geoff and Klimas, Jan and Swan, Davina and Leahy, Dorothy and Anderson, Rolande and Bury, Gerard and Dunne, Colum and Keenan, Eamon and Lambert, John and Maher, David and O'Gorman, Clodagh SM and O'Toole, Thomas P and Saunders, Jean and Shorter, Gillian W and Smyth, Bobby P and Kaner, Eileen and Cullen, Walter (2016) Feasibility of alcohol screening among patients receiving opioid treatment in primary care. BMC Family Practice , 17 , (153) .

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 .

Iqbal, Nauman and McCambridge, Orlagh and Edgar, Lauren and Young, Ciara and Shorter, Gillian W (2015) Health-care professionals' attitudes across different hospital departments regarding alcohol-related presentations. Drug and Alcohol Review , 34 , (5) , pp. 487-494.

Miller, Nicole M and Waterhouse-Bradley, Bethany and Campbell, Claire and Shorter, Gillian W (2022) How do naloxone-based interventions work to reduce overdose deaths: a realist review. Harm Reduction Journal , 19 .

Black, Nicola and Chung, Sophie and Tisdale, Calvert and Fialho, Luz Sousa and Aramrattana, Apinun and Assanangkornchai, Sawitri and Blaszczynski, Alex and Bowden-Jones, Henrietta and van den Brink, Wim and Brown, Adrian and Brown, Qiana L and Cottler, Linda B and Elsasser, Maury and Ferri, Marica and Florence, Maria and Gueorguieva, Ralitza and Hampton, Ryan and Hudson, Suzie and Kelly, Peter J and Lintzeris, Nicholas and Murphy, Lynette and Nadkarni, Abhijit and Neale, Joanne and Rosen, Daniel and Rumpf, Hans-Jürgen and Rush, Brian and Segal, Gabriel and Shorter, Gillian W and Torrens, Marta and Wait, Christopher and Young, Katherine and Farrell, Michael (2024) An international, multidisciplinary consensus set of patient-centered outcome measures for substance-related and addictive disorders. Journal of Clinical Medicine , 13 , (7) .

Slade, Karen and Justice, Lucy and Baguley, Thom and Bowen, Erica and Shorter, Gillian W and Adamson, Lyn and Beck, Amy and Borschmann, Rohan (2025) Mortality after prison release in England and Wales, 2019-2021: a comparative analysis of cause-specific death rates and risk profiles. Social Science & Medicine , 369 .

Kosonen, Janika and Shorter, Gillian W and Kuusisto, Katja (2024) Navigating challenges and opportunities: perspectives on digital service development in substance use disorder treatment. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy , 19 .

Holland, Adam and Copeland, Caroline S and Shorter, Gillian W and Connolly, Dean J and Wiseman, Alice and Mooney, John and Fenton, Kevin and Harris, Magdalena (2024) Nitazenes-heralding a second wave for the UK drug-related death crisis? The Lancet Public Health , 9 , (2) , E71-E72.

Shorter, Gillian W and Bray, Jeremy W and Heather, Nick and Berman, Anne H and Giles, Emma L and Clarke, Mike and Barbosa, Carolina and O'Donnell, Amy J and Holloway, Aisha and Riper, Heleen and Daeppen, Jean-Bernard and Monteiro, Maristela G and Saitz, Richard and McNeely, Jennifer and McKnight-Eily, Lela and Cowell, Alex and Toner, Paul and Newbury-Birch, Dorothy (2021) The "Outcome Reporting in Brief Intervention Trials: Alcohol" (ORBITAL) core outcome set: international consensus on outcomes to measure in efficacy and effectiveness trials of alcohol brief interventions. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs , 82 , (5) , pp. 638-646.

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.

Holland, Adam and Harris, Magdalena and Hickman, Matthew and Lewer, Dan and Shorter, Gillian W and Horsley, Jason and Powell, Martin and Rae, Maggie (2022) Overdose prevention centres in the UK. The Lancet Public Health , 7 , (3) , e196-e197.

Rossouw, Jaco and Suliman, Sharain and Nothling, Jani and Lombard, Carl and Bröcker, Erine and Hewett, Maryke and Simmons, Candice and Shorter, Gillian W and Seedat, Soraya and Milanak, Melissa E and Armour, Cherie (2024) A pilot randomised control study to investigate the effect of the South African Adolescence Group Sleep Intervention (SAASI) on adolescent sleep and PTSD. European Journal of Psychotraumatology , 15 .

Klimas, Jan and Heninan, Anne Marie and McCombe, Geoff and Swan, Davina and Anderson, Rolande and Bury, Gerard and Dunne, Colum and Keenan, Eamon and Saunders, Jean and Shorter, Gillian W and Smyth, Bobby P and Cullen, Walter (2015) Psychosocial interventions for problem alcohol use in primary care settings (PINTA): baseline feasibility data. Journal of Dual Diagnosis , 11 , (2) , pp. 97-106.

Chater, Angel Marie and Howlett, Neil and Shorter, Gillian W and Zakrzewski-Fruer, Julia K and Williams, Jane (2022) Reflections on experiencing parental bereavement as a young person: a retrospective qualitative study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , 19 , (4) .

Ranta, Johanna and Kaskela, Teemu and Nurmi, Juha and Ruokolainen, Teemu and Shorter, Gillian W (2024) Relational anonymity in reducing the harms of illicit drug use: accounts of users of dark web- and street-based services in Finland. Harm Reduction Journal , 21 .

Scher, Benjamin D and Chrisinger, Benjamin W and Humphreys, David K and Shorter, Gillian W (2025) Resident and staff experiences of structural barriers to a housing-based overdose prevention site in Vancouver, Canada: "There is a double standard if you smoke". Canadian Journal of Public Health , Early online .

Harris, Julie and Shorter, Gillian W and Davidson, Gavin and Best, Paul (2020) Risk perception, changing social context, and norms prevent transition to regular injection among people who smoke heroin. Drug and Alcohol Dependence , 208 .

Shorter, Gillian W (2020) Room for improvement. The Psychologist .

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 .

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Drug Science, Benzo Research Project, International Drug Policy Consortium, Love Tank CIC, Safe Only CIC, Radical Acts to Survive. Shorter, Gillian W and Harris, M and Zampini, GF (2025) Joint submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR): 77th session — Review of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. London: Release.

Shorter, Gillian W and Leonard, Paula and Bunting, Eimhear and Skelly, Jennifer and Miller, Nicole and Campbell, Clare (2022) Alcohol consumption and attitudes to evidenced-based alcohol policy in Donegal: findings from a student and general adult sample. Donegal: Alcohol Forum Ireland.

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.

Shorter, Gillian W and Bingham, Tim (2016) Service review: Take home Naloxone programme in NI. Consultation with service users and service providers. Belfast: Public Health Agency.

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Shorter, Gillian W (2024) Hope podcast series: alcohol harm reduction. Ravenor Farm Studios.

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Shorter, Gillian W and Stevens, Alex and Nutt, David (2024) The Drug Science podcast episode #116. Reducing drug harms in the UK. London: Drug Science.

Nutt, David and Shorter, Gillian W and Southwell, Matt (2022) The Drug Science podcast #73. Overdose prevention centres. London: Drug Science.