The mission of Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, is to promote excellence in the practice of addiction medicine and in clinical research as well as to support Addiction Medicine as a mainstream medical sub-specialty.
Under the guidance of an esteemed Editorial Board, peer-reviewed articles published in the Journal focus on developments in addiction medicine as well as on treatment innovations and ethical, economic, forensic, and social topics including:
?addiction and substance use in pregnancy
?adolescent addiction and at-risk use
?the drug-exposed neonate
?pharmacology
?all psychoactive substances relevant to addiction, including alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, marijuana, opioids, stimulants and other prescription and illicit substances
?diagnosis
?neuroimaging techniques
?treatment of special populations
?treatment, early intervention and prevention of alcohol and drug use disorders
?methodological issues in addiction research
?pain and addiction, prescription drug use disorder
?co-occurring addiction, medical and psychiatric disorders
?pathological gambling disorder, sexual and other behavioral addictions
?pathophysiology of addiction
?behavioral and pharmacological treatments
?issues in graduate medical education
?recovery
?health services delivery
?ethical, legal and liability issues in addiction medicine practice
?drug testing
?self- and mutual-help.
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