Substance Use and 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]