Its goal is to serve international and interdisciplinary scientific and clinical communication, to strengthen links between science and policy, and to stimulate and enhance the quality of debate. We seek submissions that are not only technically competent but are also original and contain information or ideas of fresh interest to our international readership. We seek to serve low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries as well as more economically developed countries.

　　Addiction’s scope spans human experimental, epidemiological, social science, historical, clinical and policy research relating to addiction, primarily but not exclusively in the areas of psychoactive substance use and/or gambling. In addition to original research, the journal features editorials, commentaries, reviews, letters, and book reviews.

　　《成瘾》出版了关于药物和行为成瘾的同行评审研究报告，汇集了许多不同学科的研究成果。

　　它的目标是为国际和跨学科的科学和临床交流服务，加强科学与政策之间的联系，并促进和提高辩论的质量。我们寻求的意见不仅是技术上的能力，而且是原创的，包含信息或新的想法，我们的国际读者。我们致力于为中低收入国家和经济较发达国家服务。