Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy
Open Access

Our Journal, Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy strives to publish articles in the field of Addiction Research, Addiction Recovery, Drug Rehabilitation, Substance-Related Disorders, Facts About Alcoholism, Drug Addiction Treatment, Psychiatric problems behind addiction, etc. We are very much grateful to the Editors, Reviewers, and our eminent research scholars for coordinating various tasks for publishing articles in a timely manner. Our Journal welcomes all types of articlesfull- length research articles, review articles, mini-reviews, commentary articles, image descriptions, opinions, case reports, etc. All the works published in our Journal are solely for research, teaching, and reference purposes for researchers and scholars.

In this issue Volume 12 Issue 8, our editorial board members have decided to release articles related to de-addiction programs. We would appreciate authors if they could send their work related to this topic to extend the awareness of various addictive substances.

For this issue, we are publishing one of the best research articles entitled “Adaptations to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Office-Based Addiction Treatment Programs in California” by Julia Dunn, Hannah Cheng, Hélène Chokron Garneau, Kendall Darfler, Mark McGovern. This research work has been funded by California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) "MAT Expansion Project" (DHCS Contract #17-94653) by the SAMHSA State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grants (TI-17-014). In the previous years, Mr. Mark McGovern has contributed many other scholarly articles under his guidance towards our Journal titled- “Expanding access to medications for opioid use disorder in primary care: An examination of common implementation strategies”. We really appreciate the author for this valuable work and for choosing this topic. As per the article, the study carried was based on adaptations made by patients over the de-addiction of substance use disorder during this Covid-19 pandemic. We must really appreciate Ms. Eva Vazquez for her keen and valid data collection and for maintaining the confidentiality of the patients. And hope all the authors have equally contributed their efforts in making this work successful. From this study the authors demonstrated that many primary care clinics implemented adaptations in response to COVID-19 regulatory changes, including virtual visits, reduced toxicology screens while increasing the active MOUD patient panel size. Although these adaptations indicate continued or improved access to care, further evaluation is needed to determine the impact of these adaptations, as well as suggestions for their sustainment on quality of care and patient outcomes. The article elicits further study about various medications used to treat substance use disorder and medical aids in maintaining patient's behavioral health.

We are further publishing commentary articles entitled Alcohol withdrawal syndrome, Nicotine replacement therapy articles, opinion article on the inability for quitting the use of substance in this issue. Addiction is a condition when a person craves for a physiological, mental or physical need and usually uses in the form of a habit. This addiction is a serious concern in all aspects, it can be of any form and one has to go with a lot of treatment to quit this. This addiction is in various forms like alcohol addiction, social media addiction, hospital addiction, food addiction, phone addiction, drug addiction, etc.