| What can we learn from the Portuguese decriminalization of illicit drugs? CE Hughes, A Stevens The British Journal of Criminology 50 (6), 999-1022, 2010 | 637 | 2010 |
| Are drug treatment services only for [] thieving junkie scumbags'? Drug users and the management of stigmatised identities P Radcliffe, A Stevens Social Science & Medicine 67 (7), 1065-1073, 2008 | 428 | 2008 |
| Telling policy stories: an ethnographic study of the use of evidence in policy-making in the UK A Stevens Journal of Social Policy 40 (2), 237-255, 2011 | 378 | 2011 |
| Drugs, crime and public health: The political economy of drug policy A Stevens Routledge, 2010 | 288 | 2010 |
| A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs (vol 31, pg 101, 2012) CE Hughes, A Stevens Drug and Alcohol Review 31 (5), 727-727, 2012 | 182* | 2012 |
| Quasi-compulsory treatment of drug dependent offenders: An international literature review A Stevens, D Berto, W Heckmann, V Kerschl, K Oeuvray, M Ooyen van, ... Substance Use & Misuse 40 (3), 269-283, 2005 | 176 | 2005 |
| Survival of the ideas that fit: an evolutionary analogy for the use of evidence in policy A Stevens Social Policy and Society 6 (1), 25-35, 2007 | 175 | 2007 |
| When two dark figures collide: Evidence and discourse on drug-related crime A Stevens Critical Social Policy 27 (1), 77-99, 2007 | 159 | 2007 |
| Depenalization, diversion and decriminalization: A realist review and programme theory of alternatives to criminalization for simple drug possession A Stevens, CE Hughes, S Hulme, R Cassidy European Journal of Criminology, 1477370819887514, 2019 | 143 | 2019 |
| The effects of decriminalization of drug use in Portugal CE Hughes, A Stevens Oxford: Beckley Foundation http://www. beckleyfoundation. org/bib/doc/bf …, 2007 | 135 | 2007 |
| Will growth in cryptomarket drug buying increase the harms of illicit drugs? J Aldridge, A Stevens, MJ Barratt Addiction 113 (5), 789-796, 2018 | 126 | 2018 |
| Will growth in cryptomarket drug buying increase the harms of illicit drugs? J Aldridge, A Stevens, MJ Barratt Addiction 113 (5), 789-796, 2018 | 126 | 2018 |
| An analysis of UK drug policy P Reuter, A Stevens London, UK Drug Policy Commission, 2007 | 114 | 2007 |
| Governments cannot just ‘follow the science’on COVID-19 A Stevens Nature human behaviour 4 (6), 560-560, 2020 | 112 | 2020 |
| Twisting arms or a helping hand? Assessing the impact of ‘coerced’and comparable ‘voluntary’drug treatment options T McSweeney, A Stevens, N Hunt, PJ Turnbull British Journal of Criminology 47 (3), 470-490, 2007 | 108 | 2007 |
| Whose harm? Harm reduction and the shift to coercion in UK drug policy N Hunt, A Stevens Social Policy and Society 3 (4), 333-342, 2004 | 96 | 2004 |
| Understanding drug markets and how to influence them L Wilson, A Stevens The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme Report 14, 1-13, 2008 | 83 | 2008 |
| ‘Being human’and the ‘moral sidestep’in drug policy: Explaining government inaction on opioid-related deaths in the UK A Stevens Addictive behaviors, 2018 | 81 | 2018 |
| The relationship between legal status, perceived pressure and motivation in treatment for drug dependence: Results from a European study of quasi-compulsory treatment A Stevens, D Berto, U Frick, N Hunt, V Kerschl, T McSweeney, K Oeuvray, ... European Addiction Research 12 (4), 197-209, 2006 | 80 | 2006 |
| The ‘drug policy ratchet’: why do sanctions for new psychoactive drugs typically only go up? A Stevens, F Measham Addiction 109 (8), 1226-1232, 2014 | 79 | 2014 |
Peter ReuterProfessor of Public Policy, University of MarylandVerified email at umd.edu