Roy Robertson

The Queen's Medical Research Institute — United Kingdom

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk(46), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment(38), Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes(32), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions(19), Hepatitis C virus research(14)

Publications142 total

Preventing drug-related deaths in Scotland: perceptions and experiences of engagement in a “shared care” model of service delivery
Drugs Habits and Social Policy·2025Open Access
Learning from HIV and drug policy failures: reflections from clinical practice and research in Edinburgh
Drugs Habits and Social Policy·2025Open Access
Clinical Outcomes of Benzodiazepine Prescribing for People Receiving Opioid Agonist Treatment: A Systematic Review of the Evidence
Pharmacy·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Drug and alcohol problems turn up everywhere: cooperation and coordination could help
The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh·2024Open Access
Baseline characteristics of people experiencing homelessness with a recent drug overdose in the PHOENIx pilot randomised controlled trial
Harm Reduction Journal·2023· 22 citedOpen Access
An avoidable crisis
Harm Reduction Journal·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
The Pocket Guide to Drugs and Health. By ShaneDarke, JuliaLappin, and MichaelFarrell, United Kingdom: Silverback Publishing, 2021, ISBN: 9781912141180
Addiction·2022
Milestone house: The story of a hospice for people with HIV/AIDS
The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
The Parents under Pressure parenting programme for families with fathers receiving treatment for opioid dependence: the PuP4Dads feasibility study
Public Health Research·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Towards a framework for implementing physician education in substance use disorders
Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports·2021· 6 citedOpen Access
The Parents under Pressure parenting programme for families with fathers receiving treatment for opioid dependency: the PuP4Dads feasibility study
2021
Benzodiazepines: the time for systematic change is now
Addiction·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
A Wider Range of Conditions Contributing to Death in a Cohort of People Who Have Injected Drugs. Findings from an Edinburgh Cohort.
2020Open Access
Injecting drug use, the skin and vasculature
Addiction·2020· 38 citedOpen Access
Older-age opioid-related deaths in the UK
The Lancet·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
Scotland's 2009–2015 methadone‐prescription cohort: Quintiles for daily dose of prescribed methadone and risk of methadone‐specific death
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology·2020· 9 citedOpen Access
The opioid problem in primary care
British Journal of General Practice·2020· 3 citedOpen Access
Commentary on Ho <i>et al</i>. (2020): Managing people with HIV and drug problems is complex and multi‐faceted
Addiction·2020Open Access
Drug use from adolescence to later years: Persistence or progress?
2019
Brexit threatens the UK’s ability to tackle illicit drugs and organised crime: What needs to happen now?
Health Policy·2019· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Ildefonso Hernández‐Aguado(6), Barbara Broers(5), R P Brettle(5), R.P. Brettle(5), Robert Zangerle(4), Faroudy Boufassa(4), Maria Prins(4), Peter Simmonds(4), Roel A. Coutinho(4), C.A. Skidmore(4), J. J. Roberts(4), R A Elton(4), Jeanne E. Bell(3), Anneke van den Hoek(3), James S. McKenzie(3), John Macleod(3), Lorraine Copeland(3), Ray P. Brettle(3), Nicolas Carré(3), David Goldberg(3)