Journal

JOURNAL OF SOCIETY FOR ADDICTION PSYCHOLOGY

 Chief Editor

Naveen Grover, PhD

Senior Associate Editor

YPS Balhara, MD

Associate Editors

Amrita Pain, PhD
Anamika Sahu, PhD
Mansi Verma, PhD 

EDITORIAL BOARD

Dr. R.K. Dhamija

Director, IHBAS
Delhi-110095


Dr. Naved Iqbal

Professor
Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia University, Delhi


Dr. Gauri Shanker Kaloiya

Professor of Clinical Psychology
National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), AIIMS, New Delhi


Renjith R. Pillai

Associate Professor of Psychiatric Social Work
Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh
Email: pillai.renjith@pgimer.edu.in


Dr. Vishal Dhiman

Additional Professor
Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, Rishikesh


Dr. Sandhya Isabella Fernandez

Clinical Psychologist and Psychology Advisor
32 Killarney Road, Frankton, Hamilton, New Zealand


Dr. Anatolii Tsarkov

Consultant Adult Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, UNZA
P.O. Box UTH 7, Lusaka 10101, Zambia

Published by:

Dr. Naveen Grover (on behalf of Society for Addiction Psychology)

Published at:

R No 121, Academic Block, IHBAS Hospital, Dilshad Garden, Delhi 110095

Contents
  • Message from the President of Society for Addiction Psychology  (Link) (PDF File)
  • Address from the General Secretary Society for Addiction Psychology - New Beginning The Society for Addiction Psychology (Link) (PDF File)
  • From the Editor’s Desk (Link) (PDF File)

Invited Review Articles 
  • Role of neurochemistry of substance use on treatment considerations - Amrita Pain, Rajinder K. Dhamija (Link) (PDF File)
  • Addiction and Brain- Neurosurgical Perspective - V.K.S. Gautam (Link) (PDF File)
  • Problematic Social Media Use and its relationship with Cyber Victimization and Cyber-bullying Perpetration - Pooja Bista, Anju S. Nair, Nitin Anand, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Anamika Sahu, Rajesh Kumar, Ravikesh Tripathi (Link) (PDF File)

Original Articles 
  • Social Media Exposure of Addiction Content Mediates Experimentation with Addictive Behaviors - Happy Baglari, Manoj Kumar Sharma, P. Marimuthu (Link) (PDF File)
  • Personality traits and quality of life among hypertensive Substance addicted adults - Nyanbeni Murry, Lovika Shikhu (Link) (Pdf file) 
  • Change in quality of life of caregivers as patients with alcohol dependence undergo treatment - Surendra Rajpurohit, Gauri Shanker Kaloiya, Siddharth Sarkar, Rakesh K. Chadda (Link) (PDF File)
  • Mental Health, Aggression, Suicidal Ideation and Substance Use among Institutionalised Children - Abhishek Banga, G.S. Kaloiya, Vikas Sharma (Link) (PDF File)
  • Metacognition and affect in relation to maladaptive mobile phone use among 74 school children - Andree, Preeti Gupta, Sanjay Kumar Munda (Link) (PDF File)

Case Studies 
  • A case illustration of severe withdrawal with alcohol hallucinosis from prolonged alcohol use - Shauryaa Sharmaa, Shagufta Nasir (Link) (PDF File)
ANCSAP 2023: Abstracts of original papers presented at the Annual National Conference of Society for Addition Psychology 2023 (Link) (PDF File)

Current Issue

2024 Volume 1, Issue 1

Call for Papers

The Journal of Society for Addiction Psychology invites research articles, research reports, meta-analyses and systematic reviews, conceptual articles, descriptive and experimental work related to:

  • Technology in behaviour analysis in research and practice
  • Intersectional factors in substance use disorders
  • Policy briefs and practice reviews
  • Clinical case studies and reports
  • Community case studies and field studies
  • Comment articles, communications reports, perspective review articles, opinion articles, essays, and letters in the field of substance use disorders.

Instructions for Authors:

Please email complete articles in Microsoft Word (.docx) along with the plagiarism report in Portable Document Format (.pdf) to:

Dr. Naveen Grover
Chief Editor, Journal of Society for Addiction Psychology
Email: jsapeditor@gmail.com

Research Article Requirements:

  1. The Journal follows the APA Style: 7th Edition format for article content, tables, figure captions, references, and endnotes.
  2. Word Limit: Articles (including references/appendix) should ideally be limited to 20 pages.
  3. Main content for various article types:
    • Case studies: 1500-2000 words
    • Comment articles: 1000-2000 words
    • Communications reports/research articles: 2000-3000 words
    • Original research articles: 3000-6000 words
    • Review articles: 4000-10,000 words
  4. Title: Between 12 to a maximum of 20 words.
  5. Author Information:
    • Complete names of all authors (first and last name).
    • Up-to-date/functional email addresses.
    • All author affiliations and countries.
    • Corresponding author details.
    • ORCiDs (Optional).
  6. Abstract:
    • 200 words including Objective, Method, Results, and Conclusion.
    • Graphical abstracts (optional).
  7. Keywords: 5-6 keywords.
  8. Main Text Structure: Introduction, Objective, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusion.
  9. Declarations and Ethics Statements:
    • Ethical approval (if applicable).
    • Informed consent from participants (if applicable).
    • Consent to publish statement (if applicable).
    • Competing interests/conflict of interest (if applicable).
    • Funding (if applicable).
    • Author contributions (if applicable).
    • Acknowledgements (if applicable).
  10. References: Follow APA Style: 7th Edition guidelines. 

Style Requirements:

  • Spelling: American or British English.
  • Single quotation marks within double quotes.
  • Formatting for headings:
    • First-level: Centered, Bold, Title Case
    • Second-level: Flush Left, Bold, Title Case
    • Third-level: Flush Left, Bold Italic, Title Case
    • Fourth-level: Indented, Bold, Title Case, Ending With a Period.
    • Fifth-level: Indented, Bold Italic, Title Case, Ending with a Period.
  • Font: Times New Roman size 12 with double-line spacing (including tables).
  • Margins: At least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • Tables and figures: Styled and captioned according to APA Style: 7th Edition.
Reference for instructions to authors has been adapted from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition by the American Psychological Association.