The quarterly „Alcoholism and Drug Addiction/Alkoholizmi Narkomania” is targeting research community in the field of psychoactive substances and behavioural addiction, practitioners working in this field and all interested in these issues. It has an interdisciplinary character and publishes papers on issues related to psychoactive substances and behavioural addictions, examined from the variety of perspectives, including basic research, clinical, epidemiological as well as social, cultural and historical studies.

The aim of the journal is to disseminate scientific findings of the Polish and international research on addiction, to strengthen and integrate the scientific community on the one hand, and to build bridges between science and practice, on the other. The journal serves as a forum for exchange of experiences between various professional communities.

The journal publishes original articles, review and monographic articles, case reports, research reports, papers presented at scientific conferences, conference reports, book reviews, polemics, letters and short communications. All scientific papers are anonymously evaluated by two independent referees (double-blind review).

All articles will be published under the following license: CC BY-NC-ND license creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND).

For non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.

The articles in this journal are published open access (OA)

Editorial Staff:

Jacek Moskalewicz - Editor-in-Chief
Department of Health Sociology and Addiction Research
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland

Grażyna Herczyńska - Managing editor
Department of Health Sociology and Addiction Research 
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland

Michał Bujalski - Editor for sociology and anthropology of addiction
Institute of Applied Social Sciences
University of Warsaw
Department of Health Sociology and Addiction Research 
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland

Justyna Klingemann - Editor for qualitative research
Department of Health Sociology and Addiction Research 
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland

Paweł Mierzejewski – Editor for biomedical research
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland

Daniel Rabczenko – Editor for statistics
Department - Center for Analysis and Monitoring of Population Health
National Institute of Public Health, Warsaw Poland

Magdalena Rowicka - Editor for psychology
Department of Methodology of Psychological Research
Institute of Applied Psychology
The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw Poland

Barbara Gawrońska - Language editor

Emil Tchorek - Language editor [English]

Copyrights

All authors must give their written consent to the paper publication. The corresponding author’s statement to the effect that all co-authors have read the paper and consented to its publication is also acceptable. When the paper is accepted for publication, all rights to use it are transferred to the journal owner and its copyrights. The paper may not be published by any other publisher. Upon publication, the paper is the property of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology and it may be used in full, regardless of the media and language, only upon written consent of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology. All published papers are accessible in the Open Access system and on terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

If parts from other copyrighted works are included in the article, the author(s) must obtain written consent from the title owner and acknowledge the sources in the article.

Rights to the article retained by the Author

The rights to the article are usually transferred by the authors to the owner of the journal, who makes it available under the Creative Commons license. However, if the author does not want to transfer the copyright to the publisher, he/she may contact the editorial office and set separate rules - under which the editorial office may publish an article in the journal. For the detailed information, please contact with editorial office.

The journal is co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science for the following tasks:

Dissemination of scientific articles and information about the journal, including the costs of adapting technical means - task financed under the agreement No. RCN/SP/0151/2021/1 by the Minister of Education and Science.
Upowszechnianie artykułów naukowych oraz informacji o czasopiśmie, w tym koszty dostosowania środków technicznych - zadanie finansowane w ramach umowy Nr RCN/SP/0151/2021/1 ze środków Ministra Edukacji i Nauki.

Purchase of a license for the use of editorial and publishing management software for the years 2022 – 2023 - task financed under the agreement No. RCN/SP/0151/2021/1 by the Minister of Education and Science.
Zakup licencji na korzystanie z oprogramowania do zarządzania pracami edytorskimi i wydawniczymi na lata 2022 – 2023 - zadanie finansowane w ramach umowy Nr RCN/SP/0151/2021/1 ze środków Ministra Edukacji i Nauki.

The task of verifying and correcting abstracts and scientific articles accepted for publication in the Journal - task financed under the agreement No. RCN/SP/0151/2021/1 by the Minister of Education and Science.
Realizacja zadania polegającego na dokonywaniu weryfikacji i korekty streszczeń i artykułów naukowych zaakceptowanych do publikacji w czasopiśmie - zadanie finansowane w ramach umowy Nr RCN/SP/0151/2021/1 ze środków Ministra Edukacji i Nauki.