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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) .

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.

Stevens, Alex (2020) Critical realism and the 'ontological politics of drug policy'. International Journal of Drug Policy , 84 .

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

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) .

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.

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 .

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 .

Report

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.

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.

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

Book

Stevens, Alex (2011) Drugs, crime and public health: the political economy of drug policy. Taylor & Francis .

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 .