Selected publications

Leonhardt, Marja, Rune Ellefsen, Vegard Kokabzadeh Haukland, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Providers’ perspectives on what heroin-assisted treatment ought to be: a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res 26, 990 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-026-14746-1
Desiree Eide, Francesca Melis, Ronny Bjørnestad, Silvana De Pirro, Rune Ellefsen, Zhanna Gaulen, Vegard Kokabzadeh Haukland, Marja Leonhardt, Lene Midtsundstad, Lars Henrik Ryther Myklebust, Eva Lassemo, Ann Oldervoll, Linn Støme, Birgitte Thylstrup, Christian Tjagvad, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Thomas Clausen. (2026). Evaluation of heroin-assisted treatment in Norway. SERAF Report June 2026.
Lars Henrik Ryther Myklebust, Desiree Eide, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Francesca Melis, Ann L. Oldervoll, Silvana De Pirro, Thomas Clausen. (2025). Changes in Self-Reported Mental Health, Anxiety, and Depression among Patients in Heroin-Assisted Treatment: Findings from a Norwegian Trial Project. European Addiction Research, 31(4):286–296.
Rune Ellefsen, Silvana De Pirro, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff. (2025) Relational hope and despair: heroin-assisted treatment as experienced by the patients’ family members. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1–14.
Francesca Melis, Charlotte Castel, Desiree Eide, Thomas Clausen. (2025). Health-related quality of life trajectories of patients in heroin-assisted treatment. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 275.
Vegard Haukland. (2025). Beyond a spoiled identity: Destigmatization through everyday interactions in heroin-assisted treatment. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1–15.
Francesca Melis, Timo L. Kvamme, Christian Tjagvad, Desiree Eide, Birgitte Thylstrup, Thomas Clausen, Morten Hesse. (2025). Health-related quality of life measures as predictors for recurrent hospitalization and mortality among patients in heroin-assisted treatment. Quality of Life Research, 34: 3365–3376.
Francesca Melis, Thomas Clausen, Charlotte Castel, Omid Dadras, Silvana De Pirro, Lars Henrik Ryther Myklebust, Ann Oldervoll, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Desiree Eide. (2025). Patient Characteristics From Norway’s First Heroin-Assisted Treatment Clinics. Substance Use & Addiction Journal, 46(1):13-24.
Rune Ellefsen, Silvana De Pirro, Vegard Haukland, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Espen Ajo Arnevik. (2024). “It’s a delicate balance”: clinicians’ experiences of providing heroin-assisted treatment. Harm Reduction Journal, 21: 230.
Tiril Kyrkjebø-Urheim, Christina Andersen, Rune Ellefsen. (2024). Pasienters opplevelse av livskvalitet i heroinassistert behandling. Sykepleien Forskning, 19(97141):e-97141.
Julie Brummer, Birgitte Thylstrup, Francesca Melis, Morten Hesse. (2024). Predictors of retention in heroin-assisted treatment in Denmark 2010–2018 – A record-linkage study. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 165.
Desiree Eide, Ronny Bjørnestad, Julie Brummer, Omid Dadras, Silvana De Pirro, Rune Ellefsen, Lars Thore Fadnes, Vegard Haukland, Morten Hesse, Lene Midtsundstad, Lars Henrik Ryther Myklebust, Francesca Melis, Ann Oldervoll, Birgitte Thylstrup, Christian Tjagvad, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Thomas Clausen. (2024). Midtveisrapport om heroinassistert behandling fra 2022-2023. SERAF Rapport 4/2024.
Lars Henrik Ryther Myklebust, Desiree Eide, Espen Ajo Arnevik, Omid Dadras, Silvana De Pirro, Rune Ellefsen, Lars Thore Fadnes, Morten Hesse, Timo Kvamme, Francesca Melis, Ann Oldervoll, Birgitte Thylstrup, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Thomas Clausen. (2024). Evaluation of heroin-assisted treatment in Norway: protocol for a mixed methods study. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1): 398.
Francesca Melis, Morten Hesse, Desiree Eide, Birgitte Thylstrup, Christian Tjagvad, Julie Elizabeth Brummer, Thomas Clausen. (2023). Who receives heroin-assisted treatment? A comparison of patients receiving opioid maintenance treatment in Denmark. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 254:111051.
Rune Ellefsen. (2023). Narkotikapolitikk i endring: Heroinklinikkenes oppkomst i Norge. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 41(3):307-325.
Rune Ellefsen, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Espen Ajo Arnevik. Patients’ satisfaction with heroin-assisted treatment: a qualitative study. Harm Reduction Journal, 20(73).
Michele Stanislaw Milella, Ginevra D’Ottavio, Silvana De Pirro, Massimo Barra, Daniele Caprioli, Aldo Badiani. (2023). Heroin and its metabolites: relevance to heroin use disorder. Translational Psychiatry, 13(1):120.
Desiree Eide, Ashley Muller, Anne Bukten, Thomas Clausen. (2019). Behandling av opioiddominert ruslidelse: et prøveprosjekt med heroinassistert behandling.

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