Evidence Map

Alcohol recovery

Counts of the research on each topic so far: studies per year, study designs, instruments, core papers and reviews, and how much full text is held.

Studies7,493
Last 5 years / previous 52,172 / 1,704
Open full text1,707/7,493
Full text held by the library577

Studies per year

20022026

Top instruments

  • AUDIT115
  • ASI67
  • OCDS53
  • PACS48
  • BDI47
  • TLFB41
  • CIWA-Ar26
  • DSM-5 criteria22
  • BIS-1120
  • AUDIT-C19

Study designs

  • other3,976
  • rct945
  • cohort869
  • qualitative468
  • survey449
  • experiment371
  • cross-sectional184
  • meta-analysis113
  • systematic-review103
  • case-control15

Journal country (not the study country)

  • US135
  • DE15
  • AU9
  • GB9
  • IT9
  • ES7
  • NL6
  • CA6

Core papers 10

  1. Naltrexone in the treatment of alcohol dependence.Archives of general psychiatry · 1992 · cited 1,069
  2. Naltrexone and coping skills therapy for alcohol dependence. A controlled study.Archives of general psychiatry · 1992 · cited 873
  3. Drug dependence, a chronic medical illness: implications for treatment, insurance, and outcomes evaluation.JAMA · 2000 · cited 2,611
  4. Anticraving medications for relapse prevention: a possible new class of psychoactive medications.The American journal of psychiatry · 2005 · cited 403
  5. Toward a model of drug relapse: an assessment of the validity of the reinstatement procedure.Psychopharmacology · 2006 · cited 620
  6. A functional polymorphism of the mu-opioid receptor gene is associated with naltrexone response in alcohol-dependent patients.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2003 · cited 408
  7. Gabapentin treatment for alcohol dependence: a randomized clinical trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2014 · cited 235
  8. Psychological stress, drug-related cues and cocaine craving.Psychopharmacology · 2000 · cited 367
  9. Cue-induced activation of the striatum and medial prefrontal cortex is associated with subsequent relapse in abstinent alcoholics.Psychopharmacology · 2004 · cited 460
  10. Efficacy and tolerability of long-acting injectable naltrexone for alcohol dependence: a randomized controlled trial.JAMA · 2005 · cited 433

Selection basis: in-bibliography citations (reviews x3)

Reviews 5

  1. Drug dependence, a chronic medical illness: implications for treatment, insurance, and outcomes evaluation.JAMA · 2000 · narrative · cited 2,611
  2. Extent of illicit drug use and dependence, and their contribution to the global burden of disease.Lancet (London, England) · 2012 · systematic · cited 1,304
  3. Substance use disorders in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder: a review of the literature.The American journal of psychiatry · 2001 · narrative · cited 1,041
  4. Relapse prevention for alcohol and drug problems: that was Zen, this is Tao.The American psychologist · 2004 · narrative · cited 877
  5. The relationship between anxiety disorders and alcohol use disorders: a review of major perspectives and findings.Clinical psychology review · 2000 · narrative · cited 781

Evidence level distribution

  • Full text340
  • Abstract110
  • Indirect611
  • Bibliography only6,432

Gaps

  • No full text 6,432/7,493. Adding full text is up to the owner (via the Statory library).

Honesty notes

  • every value is counted from the bibliography; none is estimated
  • journal country, not the study country
  • the bibliography is still being harvested — counts grow until the harvest ends

Statory library · Europe PMC bibliography · updated 2026-10-18 · addiction bibliography (Europe PMC) — metadata and abstracts only

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