Volume 13 Issue 1 has been published

The Co-Editors-in-Chief, 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 first issue of Volume 13 of the International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research (IJADR), for 2025.

The publication of this issue coincides with the 2025 KBS conference, and contains three papers (Parry, 2025; Purves et al., 2025 and Raninen et al., 2025) that were presented at the 2024 KBS conference in Perth. The remaining two papers (Ramsoomar et al., 2025 and Sornpaisarn et al., 2025) were submitted as regular articles. The issue contains articles from international projects based in Africa (South Africa, Uganda), Europe (Sweden), and North America (Canada). These papers include epidemiological studies (Raninen et al., 2025), policy studies related to alcohol and cannabis (Parry et al., 2025; Purves et al., 2025; Sornpaisarn et al., 2025), and a qualitative paper on the important topic of alcohol’s role in severe intimate partner violence (Ramsoomar et al., 2025).

Over and above these papers our Editorial also focuses on the 2025 paper by Thomas Babor and 28 other current and former journal editors reflecting concerns about the actions of the current US Administration that interfere with the undertaking and dissemination of scientific research in the addiction field (Babor, et al., 2025).