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  1. Metabolomics in the study of alcohol use disorder: a systematic review

    Article • Psychiatry Research, November 2025, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  2. Substance use and psychiatric comorbidities among medical inpatients: associations with length of stay, health-related quality of life, and functioning, with consideration for gender

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, June 2025, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  3. Longitudinal trajectories of tobacco and alcohol use following first or consecutive admissions for respiratory diseases

    Article • Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  4. Productos con CBD y su impacto en los análisis toxicológicos de orina: evidencia de una serie de 6 casos.

    Article • Adicciones, March 2025, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  5. Alcohol-associated liver disease: Natural history, management and novel targeted therapies

    Article • Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, February 2025, The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KAMJE)

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  6. Diagnosis and Management of Early Stages of ALD

    Article • Seminars in Liver Disease, February 2025, Thieme Publishing Group

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  7. Effects of alcohol-related problems on the costs of frequent emergency department use: an economic analysis of a case–control study in Spain

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, December 2024, Frontiers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  8. Efficacy of medications for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD): A systematic review and meta-analysis considering baseline AUD severity

    Article • Pharmacological Research, November 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  9. Ensuring safety in cannabinoid prescriptions: A call for critical assessment

    Article • European Neuropsychopharmacology, October 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  10. Liver fibrosis screening increases alcohol abstinence

    Article • JHEP Reports, October 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  11. Medicina de la adicción: Más allá del DSM5

    Article • Adicciones, September 2024, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  12. High-Risk Cannabis Use: A Proposal of an Operational Definition through Delphi Methodology for Scientific Consensus

    Article • European Addiction Research, September 2024, Karger Publishers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  13. Another Round: Influence of Alcohol-Related Conditions and Other Drug Use-Related Disorders in Emergency Department Frequent Use – A Single-Site Matched Case-Control Study in Spain

    Article • European Addiction Research, July 2024, Karger Publishers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  14. Binge drinking at time of bariatric surgery is associated with liver disease, suicides, and increases long-term mortality

    Article • Hepatology Communications, July 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  15. Multiplatform web app (My Way Up) plus motivational interviewing for improving treatment retention in patients with onset of alcohol-related liver disease and alcohol use disorder – an example of participatory research

    Article • Digital Health, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  16. Early Liver Transplantation in Severe Alcohol-associated Hepatitis

    Article • Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas, January 2024, Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva (SEPD)

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  17. Optimizing Digital Tools for the Field of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders: Backcasting Exercise

    Article • JMIR Human Factors, December 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  18. Reply: Medications promoting abstinence in alcohol-associated cirrhosis

    Article • Hepatology, October 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  19. Psychological interventions to treat alcohol use disorder in patients with liver disease

    Article • Clinical Liver Disease, September 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  20. Medications for alcohol use disorder promote abstinence in alcohol-associated cirrhosis: Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Hepatology, August 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  21. Social disparities in alcohol's harm to others: evidence from 32 European countries

    Article • International Journal of Drug Policy, August 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  22. The socioeconomic profile of alcohol use in Europe: findings from 33 European countries

    Article • The International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, June 2023, International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  23. The impact of legal cannabis availability on cannabis use and health outcomes: A systematic review

    Article • International Journal of Drug Policy, June 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  24. Unrecorded alcohol use in 33 European countries: Analyses of a comparative survey with 49,000 people who use alcohol

    Article • International Journal of Drug Policy, June 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  25. Measuring cannabis quantities in online surveys: A rapid review and proposals for ways forward

    Article • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, April 2023, Wiley

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  26. Vickybot, a Chatbot for Anxiety-Depressive Symptoms and Work-Related Burnout in Primary Care and Health Care Professionals: Development, Feasibility, and Potential Effectiveness Studies

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, April 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  27. La importancia de los patrones de consumo: Diseño de una encuesta que permita evaluar daño relacionado al consumo de cannabis

    Article • Adicciones, March 2023, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  28. Editorial: Using digital solutions for Brief Interventions in Alcohol, Tobacco, other drug use, and gambling: From the present to the future

    Article • Frontiers in Digital Health, February 2023, Frontiers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  29. Synthetic Cannabinoids and Cannabis: How the Patterns of Use Differ: Results from the European Web Survey on Drugs

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  30. “Doctor, Can I Drink an Alcohol-Free Beer?” Low-Alcohol and Alcohol-Free Drinks in People with Heavy Drinking or Alcohol Use Disorders: Systematic Review of the Literature

    Article • Nutrients, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  31. Tailoring an evidence-based clinical intervention and training package for the treatment and prevention of comorbid heavy drinking and depression in middle-income country settings: the development of the SCALA toolkit in Latin America

    Article • Global Health Action, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  32. Telemedicine in the treatment of addictions

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychiatry, June 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  33. The iCannTookit: a consensus‐based, flexible framework for measuring contemporary cannabis use

    Article • Addiction, June 2022, Wiley

    Jamie Brown, Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  34. Revisión sistemática sobre el manejo clínico del dolor crónico y el trastorno por uso de opioides simultáneo

    Article • Adicciones, April 2022, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  35. Reduced alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of 17 000 patients seeking primary health care in Colombia and Mexico

    Article • Journal of Global Health, March 2022, Edinburgh University Global Health Society

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  36. The iCannToolkit: a tool to embrace measurement of medicinal and non‐medicinal cannabis use across licit, illicit and cross‐cultural settings

    Article • Addiction, March 2022, Wiley

    Jamie Brown, Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  37. Changes in alcohol use during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Europe: A meta‐analysis of observational studies

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Review, February 2022, Wiley

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  38. Clozapine toxicity and coronavirus disease 2019: A case report

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, February 2022, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  39. Training primary health care providers in Colombia, Mexico and Peru to increase alcohol screening: Mixed-methods process evaluation of implementation strategy

    Article • Implementation Research and Practice, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  40. An Eight-Year Followup Study after Heart Transplantation: The Relevance of Psychosocial and Psychiatric Background

    Article • Transplantology, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  41. A randomized controlled non-inferiority trial of primary care-based facilitated access to an alcohol reduction website (EFAR Spain)

    Article • Internet Interventions, December 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  42. Public health monitoring of cannabis use in Europe: prevalence of use, cannabis potency, and treatment rates

    Article • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, November 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  43. Standard units for cannabis dose: Why is it important to standardize cannabis dose for drug policy and how can we enhance its place on the public health agenda?

    Article • International Journal of Drug Policy, November 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  44. The International Cannabis Toolkit (iCannToolkit): a multidisciplinary expert consensus on minimum standards for measuring cannabis use

    Article • Addiction, October 2021, Wiley

    Jamie Brown, Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  45. Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  46. Early, Chronic, and Acute Cannabis Exposure and Their Relationship With Cognitive and Behavioral Harms

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, August 2021, Frontiers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  47. Rehabilitation Gaming System for Alcohol-Related Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Usability Study

    Article • Alcohol and Alcoholism, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  48. Validation of the Alcohol Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in acute psychiatric inpatients

    Article • Adicciones, June 2021, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  49. Supporting Future Cannabis Policy – Developing a Standard Joint Unit: A Brief Back-Casting Exercise

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, May 2021, Frontiers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  50. Mid and long-term effects of a SBIRT program for at-risk drinkers attending to an emergency department. Follow-up results from a randomized controlled trial.

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, March 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  51. Factors Affecting Quality of Life in Liver Transplant Candidates: An Observational Study

    Article • Transplantology, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  52. Impact of Training and Municipal Support on Primary Health Care–Based Measurement of Alcohol Consumption in Three Latin American Countries: 5-Month Outcome Results of the Quasi-experimental Randomized SCALA Trial

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Eileen Kaner, Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  53. Relación entre las motivaciones para consumir y el consumo problemático de cannabis

    Article • Adicciones, January 2021, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  54. Psychiatric Clinical Profiles and Pharmacological Interactions in COVID-19 Inpatients Referred to a Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Unit: a Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • Psychiatric Quarterly, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  55. Perceived appropriateness of alcohol screening and brief advice programmes in Colombia, Mexico and Peru and barriers to their implementation in primary health care – a cross-sectional survey

    Article • Primary Health Care Research & Development, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo, Professor Eileen Kaner

  56. Motivational Interviewing for Cannabis Use Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Article • European Addiction Research, January 2021, Karger Publishers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  57. Mortality involving New Psychoactive Substances across Europe, 2016-2017

    Article • Emerging Trends in Drugs Addictions and Health, January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  58. Cannabis use the week before admission to psychiatric in-patient service as a marker of severity

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, October 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  59. COVID-19 inpatients with psychiatric disorders: Real-world clinical recommendations from an expert team in consultation-liaison psychiatry

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, September 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  60. A systematic review of treatments for alcohol-related cognitive impairment: lessons from the past and gaps for future interventions

    Article • Psychological Medicine, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  61. Active Smoking Before Liver Transplantation in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder: Risk Factors and Outcomes

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  62. e-INEBRIA Special Interest Group Roadmap for Best Practices for Research on Brief Digital Interventions for Problematic Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, August 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  63. “The post-COVID era”: challenges in the treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) after the pandemic

    Article • BMC Medicine, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  64. Implementing primary healthcare-based measurement, advice and treatment for heavy drinking and comorbid depression at the municipal level in three Latin American countries: final protocol for a quasiexperimental study (SCALA study)

    Article • BMJ Open, July 2020, BMJ

    Professor Eileen Kaner, Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  65. Remote Monitoring Telemedicine (REMOTE) Platform for Patients With Anxiety Symptoms and Alcohol Use Disorder: Protocol for a Case-Control Study

    Article • JMIR Research Protocols, June 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  66. e-INEBRIA Special Interest Group Roadmap for Best Practices for Research on Brief Digital Interventions for Problematic Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use (Preprint)

    Article • May 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  67. The blind men and the elephant: Systematic review of systematic reviews of cannabis use related health harms

    Article • European Neuropsychopharmacology, April 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  68. Safety of nalmefene for the treatment of alcohol use disorder: an update

    Article • Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  69. Remote Monitoring Telemedicine (REMOTE) Platform for Patients With Anxiety Symptoms and Alcohol Use Disorder: Protocol for a Case-Control Study (Preprint)

    Article • November 2019, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  70. Translation, adaptation, and reliability of the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation in the Spanish population

    Article • Clinical Transplantation, September 2019, Wiley

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  71. Factors affecting engagement of primary health care professionals and their patients in facilitated access to online alcohol screening and brief intervention

    Article • International Journal of Medical Informatics, July 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  72. Prediction of Alcohol Relapse Among Liver Transplant Candidates With Less Than 6 Months of Abstinence Using the High‐Risk Alcoholism Relapse Score

    Article • Liver Transplantation, June 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  73. Digital brief interventions for risky drinkers are not the panacea: A pilot study exploring barriers for its implementation according to professionals’ perceptions

    Article • Health Informatics Journal, June 2019, SAGE Publications

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  74. Treatment retention in a specialized alcohol programme after an episode of alcoholic hepatitis: Impact on alcohol relapse

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  75. Call for Action: Benzodiazepine Prescription Prevalence Analysis Shows Off-Label Prescription in One in Eleven Citizens

    Article • European Addiction Research, January 2019, Karger Publishers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  76. Role of Alcohol and Drug Detection by Regular Urine Sample Testing in pre-transplant evaluation for Alcohol Liver Disease

    Article • Adicciones, July 2018, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  77. Posverdad del consumo de cannabis: de regreso a la medicina basada en la evidencia

    Article • Adicciones, July 2018, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  78. Constituyentes psicoactivos del cannabis y sus implicaciones clínicas: una revisión sistemática

    Article • Adicciones, April 2018, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  79. Effectiveness of a Specialized Brief Intervention for At-risk Drinkers in an Emergency Department: Short-term Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • Academic Emergency Medicine, April 2018, Wiley

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  80. Quantitative Criteria to Screen for Cannabis Use Disorder

    Article • European Addiction Research, January 2018, Karger Publishers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  81. Alcohol abstinence in patients surviving an episode of alcoholic hepatitis: Prediction and impact on long-term survival

    Article • Hepatology, November 2017, Wiley

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  82. Barriers to implement screening for alcohol consumption in Spanish hypertensive patients

    Article • Family Practice, November 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  83. The Standard Joint Unit

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Dependence, July 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  84. Risky Drinkers Underestimate their Own Alcohol Consumption

    Article • Alcohol and Alcoholism, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  85. Self-management and Shared Decision-Making in Alcohol Dependence via a Mobile App: a Pilot Study

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  86. Working on a Standard Joint Unit: A pilot test

    Article • Adicciones, September 2016, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  87. Definitions of Risky and Problematic Cannabis Use: A Systematic Review

    Article • Substance Use & Misuse, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  88. El alcoholismo y su abordaje desde una perspectiva ciudadana

    Article • Adicciones, June 2016, Socidrogalcohol

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  89. Implementing referral to an electronic alcohol brief advice website in primary healthcare: results from the ODHIN implementation trial

    Article • BMJ Open, June 2016, BMJ

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  90. Editorial: Brief Interventions for Risky Drinkers

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, March 2016, Frontiers

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  91. Alcohol consumption in upper aerodigestive tract cancer: Role of head and neck surgeons' recommendations

    Article • Alcohol, March 2016, Elsevier

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  92. A randomised controlled non-inferiority trial of primary care-based facilitated access to an alcohol reduction website (EFAR Spain): the study protocol

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2014, BMJ

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  93. Assessment of cannabis use disorders: a systematic review of screening and diagnostic instruments

    Article • Psychological Medicine, November 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  94. Nalmefene and its use in alcohol dependence

    Article • Drugs of Today, January 2014, Portico

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo

  95. Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome

    Article • CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, November 2013, Wiley

    Mr Hugo López-Pelayo