《酒精与酒精中毒》发表关于酒精中毒与酒精研究的生物医学、心理学和社会学方面的论文，前提是这些论文对该领域的知识做出了新的重大贡献。论文包括实验获得的新结果，对酒精研究和治疗领域重要的新实验(包括临床)方法的描述，或对现有结果的新解释。理论贡献与处理实验工作的论文被认为是平等的，只要这些理论贡献在很大程度上不具有思辨或哲学性质。
Alcohol and Alcoholism publishes papers on the biomedical, psychological, and sociological aspects of alcoholism and alcohol research, provided that they make a new and significant contribution to knowledge in the field.Papers include new results obtained experimentally, descriptions of new experimental (including clinical) methods of importance to the field of alcohol research and treatment, or new interpretations of existing results.Theoretical contributions are considered equally with papers dealing with experimental work provided that such theoretical contributions are not of a largely speculative or philosophical nature.