Substance Use & Addiction Journal

The mission of Substance Use & Addiction Journal (SAJ) is to advance science through dissemination of high-quality, innovative research, and commentary related to substance use and substance use disorders by and for a broad range of stakeholders including clinicians, researchers, educators, policy makers, persons and advocates of persons who use substances, and public health and healthcare staff and leaders worldwide. SAJ is committed to improving health, health care, and health equity for vulnerable populations.

SAJ strives to obtain, publish, and promote high-quality, innovative research, and commentary regarding substance use and substance use disorder in the following thematic areas:

1. Substance use and substance use disorder prevention, identification, assessment, treatment, and recovery [clinical theme]
2. Innovations and evaluation of education and training modalities regarding substance use and substance use disorder for the community, students, trainees, and health care professionals [education theme]
3. The impact, influence, prevention, and treatment of substance use, and substance use disorders among vulnerable, marginalized, and/or populations that suffer health inequity [equity theme]
4. The impact, influence, prevention, and treatment of substance use, and substance use disorders within the international community [international theme]
5. Substance use and substance use disorder health policy and public health research [policy/public health theme]
6. Implementation of evidence-based prevention, identification, assessment, and treatment within health care, community, and geographic environments [implementation theme]
7. Innovative methods to evaluate substance use and substance use prevention, harm reduction, identification, assessment, treatment, and recovery [harm reduction theme]

In this mission and these themes, we underscore the importance of incorporating the lived experiences of persons who use substances and peer interventions—including peer recovery coaches and community-based participatory research approaches—to enhance knowledge, science, and impacts.

SAJ accepts the following manuscript/article types:

1. Original Research
2. Brief Report
3. Review
4. Case Report
5. Commentary
6. Commentary with Study Protocols
7. Letter to the Editor
8. Editorial

Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/SAJ. For complete author guidelines, please visit journals.sagepub.com/home/saj and click the “Submit Paper” tab. Questions regarding the submission process may be directed to Dr. Adam J. Gordon, email SAjEditorAMERSA@gmail.com.

Substance Use & Addiction Journal (ISSN 2976-7342) (J920) is published quarterly—in January, April, July, and October— on behalf of AMERSA, Inc. (Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use & Addiction), P.O. Box 952, Charlestown, Rhode Island 02813, by Sage Publishing, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Send address changes to Substance Abuse, c/o SAGE Publishing, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320.

Copyright © 2023 by AMERSA, Inc. (Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use & Addiction). All rights reserved. No portion of the contents may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.                                                  

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