Drugs and Alcohol Today
Last updated ISSN 1745-9265
Drugs and Alcohol Today is published by Emerald Publishing Limited in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Drugs and Alcohol Today concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
Key facts
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1745-9265, 2042-8359 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 744 |
| Publishing since | 2004 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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