Editorial Comment 3/10/2020:  Contribution Solicitation

Periodically we re-state an enduring question:  have any of the readers a wish to submit a commentary or a review on a topic in addiction medicine?  While subject to peer review by the editorial panel, and thus risking re-writing or even rejection, your words will be treated gently and received gratefully. As I am reminded in academia and in settings of recovery, I will listen best when my own mouth is closed.

In the absence of an NLM listing, a contribution to this weekly review cannot carry the prestige of a JAD or Addiction piece.  But the Weekly’s distribution exceeds 57,000 inclusive of the 6100+ ASAM members, with a high rate of opening (reading). Its impact arguably exceeds that of most paper-format journals, and it is open access. 

My experience has been that there is no paucity of opinions among this readership.  But transmission of those opinions – and better, of observations, reviews, cases, and news – needs a vehicle.  ASAM Weekly provides that:  ASAMWeekly@asam.org 

- Editor-in-Chief: Dr. William Haning, MD, DFAPA, DFASAM