Special Issue "Drug Abuse and Addiction"

Guest Editor
Dr. Brian R. Flay
Department of Public Health, Oregon State University, Waldo Hall #321 (Mail #254), Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Website: http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/faculty-staff/userinfo.php?id=461
E-Mail: brian.flay@oregonstate.edu
Phone: +1 541 737 3837
Fax: +1 541 737 4001
Interests: health promotion and disease prevention research; mass media for health promotion and prevention; smoking and drug abuse prevention; violence prevention; youth HIV/AIDS prevention; positive youth development; comprehensive school reform; prevention research methods and theory; prevention research training

Any empirical papers or systematic reviews concerned with the epidemiology, etiology, prevention or treatment of drug abuse and addiction will be considered. Papers focused on alcohol or tobacco use alone should be submitted to the respective special issues; however, papers may consider the epidemiology, etiology, prevention or treatment of multiple substance abuse or addiction, including alcohol and tobacco, as long as they also include other drugs. Authors are encouraged to consider the individual or intrapersonal, as well as the environmental (including social and cultural/societal) aspects of the epidemiology, etiology, prevention or treatment of drug abuse and addiction.

• - free for readers, with low publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions
• Free publication for manuscripts submitted by 30 January 2009
• Rapid publication: accepted papers are immediately published online (we started to publish papers quickly since September 2008). The printed edition will only be continued for the Proceedings of the yearly International Symposiums on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research starting 2009.

Submission

The Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601) was launched in 2004 and is an Open Access journal, with the main Editorial Office located in Basel, Switzerland. It has been accepted for coverage in Science Citation Index Expanded, available as the Web of Science and in Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences. Coverage will begin with the 2009 issues. This journal is also abstracted and indexed very rapidly by Chemical Abstracts, MedLine/PubMed and EMBASE. The IJERPH maintains a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system. Well written papers have been peer-reviewed and published in less than 4 weeks from manuscript submission. All papers published in IJERPH have DOI numbers.

All papers should be submitted to ijerph@mdpi.com with copy to the guest editor. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at this special issue website.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a paper. Open Access publication fees are 300 CHF per paper. English correction fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (550 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.). Free publication in open access format for manuscripts submitted by 30 January 2009.

• drug abuse epidemiology
• drug abuse etiology
• social determinants
• cultural determinants
• prevention
• treatment