The Co-Editors-in-Chief, Associate Professor Anne-Marie Laslett and Professor Neo Morojele, together with our Guest Editors Dr Rachel O’Donnell, Jack G. Martin, Dr Nic Taylor, Dr Gemma Mitchell, Dr Inês Henriques-Cadby, and Dr Megan Cook, are pleased to announce the release of the second issue of Volume 12 of the International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research (IJADR). This second issue for 2024 consists of five papers – three from the 2023 annual meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) in Johannesburg, and two papers submitted to our regular issue. This issue’s diverse and very interesting papers focus on media coverage of new alcohol guidelines in Canada, alcohol’s harms to others in the United States and globally, post-incarceration network dynamics in the United States, drinking and cannabis use among students in private high schools in Australia, and harms to children from men's drinking.