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ADDICTION publishes peer-reviewed research reports on alcohol, illicit drugs, tobacco and behavioural addictions, bringing together research conducted within many different disciplines.
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Clinical Trial Registration
Addiction, In common with many other medical journals, requires that the clinical trials submitted for its consideration are pre-registered at one of the recognised clinical trial registers. A list of registers can be found via the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/. If authors wish an unregistered trial to be considered, they must explain at submission why the trial has not been registered.
Behavioural Intervention Protocols
We are now asking authors describing clinical evaluations of behavioural interventions to lodge non-publicly available instruments online in the supplementary material archive that will be linked to the online version of their published paper.
Most Recent Press Releases
Gay youth report higher rates of drug and alcohol use — 25 March 2008
The odds of substance use for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are on average 190 percent higher than for heterosexual youth, according to a recent study.
Call for all cigarettes to be sold in plain cardboard packs — 13 March 2008
Cigarettes should be sold in plain, dull cardboard packs, with nothing but the health warning and the brand name allowed, researchers at the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health have argued.
Step-parents influence teenage smoking behaviour — 25 February 2008
Smoking by a non-biological parent is as influential as smoking by biological parents in determining whether their teenager smokes, reveal the results of a Cancer Research UK study.
