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Currently called the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, the longest running periodical of its kind in the Unites States has been published at the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies since it was founded in 1940 by Howard W. Haggard, M.D., director of Yale University’s Laboratory of Applied Physiology.

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The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (2007–present) is the oldest substance-related journal published in the United States, formerly the Journal of Studies on Alcohol (1975–2006) and the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol (1940–1974). It is published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc., based at the Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
JSAD is a multidisciplinary journal, publishing research on all aspects of the use of alcohol, other licit and illicit substances, and inhalants; tobacco and e-cigarette use; the misuse of prescription medication; and behavioral addictions, including gambling and gaming. The range of topics includes, but is not limited to, the biological, medical, epidemiological, psychiatric, social, psychological, legal, public health, socioeconomic, genetic, and neuroscientific aspects of substance use and behavioral addictions.

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