Mohan D, Adityanjee, Saxena S & Lal S (1985) Changing trends in heroin abuse in India: an assessment based on treatment records. Bulletin on Narcotics, XXXVII:19-24.
Saxena S (1989) Chasing the dragon: Indian experience. British Journal of Addiction, 34:699-700.
These two papers were among the first to make policy makers in India more aware of the rapidly increasing heroin dependence in the country.
Saxena S (1997) Alcohol, Europe and the developing countries, Addiction, 92 (Suppl. 1) 543-548.
This paper, initially presented in a WHO conference, brought attention to the increasing consumption of alcohol in low- and middle-income countries and highlighted the need for global cooperation in decreasing the public health impact of alcohol.
Room R, Carlini-Cotrim B, Guruje O, Jernigan D, Makela K, Marshall M, Monteiro M, Medina-Mora M E, Parry C, Partanen J, Riley L, and Saxena S (2000) Alcohol policies in developing societies: perspectives from a project. Journal of Substance Abuse, 48: 2-5.
This short paper summarized the findings from a book of similar title on existing and evolving policies on alcohol in low- and middle-income countries and made recommendations on why public health considerations need to the primary objective of such policies.
Jernigan DH, Monteiro M, Room R, Saxena S (2000) Towards a global alcohol policy: alcohol, public health and the role of WHO. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 78: 491-499.
This paper anticipated and perhaps facilitated the development of a global strategy on the harmful use of alcohol by the World Health Organization.
Dua T, Barbui C, Clark N, Fleischmann A, Poznyak V, van Ommeren M, Yasamy MT, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Birbeck GL,Drummond C, Freeman M, Giannakopoulos P, Levav I, Obot I, Omigbodun O, Patel V, Phillips M, Prince M, Rahimi-Movaghar A, Rahman A, Sander JW, Saunders JB, Servili C, Thara R, Unutzer J, Ventevogel P, Vijayakumar L, Thornicroft G, Saxena S. (2011) Evidence-based guidelines for mental, neurological, and substance use disorders in low- and middle-income countries: summary of who recommendations. plos medicine, vol 8, 11.
This paper and the corresponding WHO publication integrated care of mental, neurological and substance use disorders by non-specialists, providing evidence-based guidelines, clinical algorithms and training material for ready use. These materials have expanded subsequently and are being used in more than one hundred countries for scaling up services.
Wardle H, Degenhardt L, Marionneau V, Reith G, Livingstone C, Sparrow M, Tran LT, Biggar B, Bunn C, Farrell M, Kesaite V, Poznyak V, Quan J, Rehm J, Rintoul A, Sharma M, Shiffman J, Siste K, Ukhova D, Volberg R, Salifu Yendork J, Saxena S. (2024) The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling. Lancet Public Health, Oct 16: S2468-2667(24)00167-1.
This recent publication reviews the global extent and harms of gambling and makes recommendations for public health policies to decrease these harms.
