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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
It doesn’t matter if you still like the smell of other people’s cigarettes after you have stopped! — 17 October 2008
Research published in the November issue of Addiction has shown that recent ex-smokers who find exposure to other people's cigarette smoke pleasant are not any more likely to relapse than those who find it unpleasant.
Drug treatment outcomes tool: fit for purpose and delivering world-beating data — 15 August 2008
The Treatment Outcomes Profile (TOP) - the tool used for monitoring the effectiveness of substance misuse treatment in England - has been assessed by peer-review as fit for purpose, and is published in Addiction this week.
New study suggests graphic health warning labels on cigarettes may help reduce teen smoking — 11 August 2008
Graphic health warnings on cigarettes may lower teenagers' intentions to smoke, according to a new study
