Substance Use and Treatment Article Collection

Publishes multi-disciplinary biomedical research on all aspects of the actions or effects of alcohol on the nervous system or on other organ systems.

• Predicting moderate drinking behaviors in National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey participants using biochemical and demographical factors with machine learning opens in new tab/window

• Regional cortical thickness recovery with extended abstinence after treatment in those with alcohol use disorder opens in new tab/window

• Sensory processing and alcohol use in adults with autism spectrum disorder opens in new tab/window

• Alcohol and aging – An area of increasing concern opens in new tab/window

Publishes on drug, alcohol and tobacco use and dependence.

• National and regional trends in seizures of shrooms (psilocybin) in the United States, 2017–2022 opens in new tab/window

• Intergenerational transmission of tobacco smoking: The role of the child’s behavioral difficulties. Data from the Danish National Birth cohort (DNBC) opens in new tab/window

• Does sleep relate to next-day cannabis use during treatment? Findings from an adolescent and young adult motivational enhancement and cognitive behavioral therapy plus topiramate intervention opens in new tab/window

• Effects of restricting alcohol sales on fatal violence: Evidence from Sunday sales bans opens in new tab/window

Publishes on the care of substance use disorders (including alcohol, illicit and prescription drugs, cannabis and nicotine) and their consequences.

• Affective and cognitive Theory of Mind in patients with alcohol use disorder: Associations with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and somatization opens in new tab/window

• Increasing access to quality care for pregnant and postpartum people with opioid use disorder: Coordination of services, provider awareness and training, extended postpartum coverage, and perinatal quality collaboratives opens in new tab/window

• Longitudinal changes in co-involved drugs, comorbidities, and demographics of methamphetamine-related deaths in Los Angeles County opens in new tab/window

• Learning from their experiences: Strategies used by youth and young adult ex-vapers opens in new tab/window

An open access companion journal to Drug and Alcohol Dependence, which offers an alternative home for high quality, methodologically sound addiction science.

• Cannabis vaping among high school seniors in adult-use, medical, and prohibited legal contexts opens in new tab/window

• Buprenorphine involvement in opioid overdose deaths: A retrospective analysis of postmortem toxicology in Marion County, Indiana, 2015-2021 opens in new tab/window

• Prolonged exposure to cocaine self-administration results in a continued progression of alterations in functional activity in a nonhuman primate model opens in new tab/window

• Cocaine use disorder patients develop distinct patterns of regulation of acth secretion by a vasopressin agonist and oxytocin opens in new tab/window