Substance Abuse
Last updated ISSN 0889-7077
Substance Abuse is published by SAGE Publishing in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Substance Abuse concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0889-7077, 1547-0164 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,400 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,812 |
| Publishing since | 1988 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/wsub20/current |
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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