Ethical Policy
Editorial Independence
The Society for the Study of Addiction respects and supports the independence of the journal’s editors and exerts no authority over them.
Farmington Consensus
Addiction is a founding signatory of the Farmington Consensus. The Consensus is a series of ethical publishing guidelines for addiction journals, which 26 journals have adopted to date. The Consensus was developed in 1997 at the inaugural meeting of the group now known as the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE).
International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE) Draft Ethical Guidelines
Building on the Farmington Consensus, the ISAJE Ethical Working Group has developed detailed guidelines on ethical issues. The resulting document can be found here. It endeavours to provide guidance to authors, editors and other individuals on ethical and procedural matters that affect the integrity of scientific publishing in the addiction field. We urge readers, writers, reviewers and the entire editorial network of Addiction to study the guidelines, to criticise them, to improve them and to use them effectively.
Ethics Editorials
“No switching off the camera: How Addiction will respond to infringements of ethical publishing expectation” (Addiction 96, 1391–1392). This editorial explains the journal’s policy on real or apparent breaches of ethical publishing norms by authors.
“Ethics Matter: To authors, editors and those we serve” (Addiction 98, 1–2). Babor’s editorial offers an introduction to the ISAJE guidelines and discusses some background issues.
Editors’ Declarations of Interest
Addiction has asked its senior editors to provide brief statements on any interests which might be seen as having a potential bearing on the independence of their editorial judgements. We have done so in the belief that such transparency is owed to our authors and readers, and is fair reciprocity for the requirement on declaration of interests which we put on authors, referees and book reviewers. Senior staff are expected to distance themselves from any editorial decision-making where potential conflict of interest might be deemed to exist. Similar statements from the journal’s associate editors are held in the editorial office.
John Marsden
In the past three years, John Marsden declares research grants from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR; randomised controlled trial of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder [AUD]; sponsor: King’s College London [KCL]), Indivior (randomised controlled trial of extended-release pharmacotherapy for opioid use disorder; sponsor: KCL and South London & Maudsley NHS Trust), and Beckley PsyTech (trial of 5-MeO-DMT for AUD; sponsor: Beckley PsyTech). John is a senior scientific advisor for the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, English Department of Health and Social Care, and a clinical academic consultant for the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centre for Clinical Trials Network. He declares honoraria and travel support from PCM Scientific, OPEN Health, and Indivior to contribute to scientific and educational events (2020-2023). He holds no stocks in any company. [2023]
Arpana Agrawal
Arpana Agrawal has received financial support from NIDA, NCI, NIAAA, and ABMRF/Foundation for Alcohol Research. She has no financial conflicts of interest to declare. [2019]
Rosa Alati
Rosa Alati holds a full time appointment at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), University of Queensland (Australia). Rosa has never received any funding from alcohol or tobacco companies. She has received research grants from the Australia Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and funding from the Queensland Mental Health Commission. She is unaware of any potential conflict of interest with her role of Senior Editor on the editorial team of Addiction. [2019]
Steve Allsop
Steve Allsop has no institutional or other associations which he believes contribute to a conflict of interest. He is currently in a University post with funding from the Australian Government; he has served as a senior public servant in health in Western Australia and South Australia; he is currently Deputy Chair of the Australian National Advisory Committee on Alcohol and Drugs; chair of the WA Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies; Board Director Australian Drug Foundation and Member WA Ombudsman Child Death and Domestic Violence Review Panel. He has received fees and travel expenses from government and university bodies for facilitation of professional and community meetings. He has received payment and travel expenses for teaching at clinical training events, organised by professional bodies, who were supported by funds provided by pharmaceutical companies. In 2005 he received travel expenses to speak to a group of alcohol industry representatives about evidence-based prevention of alcohol problems. [2019]
Christina Andrews
Christina Andrews is employed by the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina and the Medical University of South Carolina. Through the University of South Carolina, she receives research funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In the past three years, she has received honoraria from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, RTI International and the State of Pennsylvania Department of Public Health. She has no financial conflicts of interest to declare. [2020]
Paul Aveyard
Paul Aveyard receives a personal income from work for the University of Oxford and the UK health service. He has done occasional research and consultancy with the pharmaceutical industry which, in the past three years, amounted to one day of consultancy for Pfizer on general smoking cessation unrelated to any particular product. This led to payments to his institution and to him personally. [2019]
Silke Behrendt
Silke Behrendt is currently employed at University of Southern Denmark. She has received research funding from the Region of Southern Denmark. She has worked in research projects funded by the Lundbeck Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). She has received payment and travel expenses for teaching at clinical training events, organised by the addiction care system, the public health care system, and the German national chamber of psychotherapists. She has never received personal fees or research funding from pharmaceutical, alcohol, e-cigarette or tobacco companies. As far as she is aware, she has no affiliations, memberships, or financial associations that constitute conflicts of interest with her editorial responsibilities for Addiction. [2023]
Virginia Berridge
Virginia Berridge is a HEFCE funded staff member of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She holds or has held grants from the Wellcome Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Alcohol Education and Research Council (now Alcohol Change), the Medical Research Council and NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. These are charities or government funded bodies. She has no other sources of research funding and no conflicts of interest. [2019]
Billie Bonevski
Billie Bonevski has received funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, Cancer Council NSW, National Heart Foundation, National Stroke Foundation, NSW Ministry of Health, Victoria Health, Pfizer and Boehringer. She has never received funding from the tobacco, alcohol, cannabis or gambling industries. She has no connection to patents, copyrights, or businesses related to addiction [2023]
Ingrid Binswanger
Ingrid Binswanger is a physician employed by the Colorado Permanente Medical Group. She provides addiction treatment to members enrolled in Kaiser Permanente Colorado, an integrated health plan and delivery organization that provides Colorado residents comprehensive primary and specialty health care. The Colorado Permanente Medical Group exclusively provides clinical care to patients enrolled in the health plan. She receives royalties from Uptodate for educational content related to health care of incarcerated persons. Through her institution, she receives funding to conduct research related to addiction and healthcare from the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [2019]
Ron Borland
Ron Borland is employed by the charitable organisation Cancer Council Victoria which has a charter to conduct science-driven cancer control. He receives ongoing research support from his employer. [2019]
Jonathan Bricker
Jonathan Bricker’s research is funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Dr Bricker is on the scientific advisory board for Chrono Therapeutics, Inc. He has no conflicts of interest to declare. [2019]
Arthur Brody
Arthur Brody receives research funding from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, US Department of Veterans Affairs, and the University of California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. He does not receive any funds, directly or indirectly, from the tobacco, alcohol, cannabis or gambling industry, the addiction treatment or prevention industry, or the pharmaceutical industry. He does not have any connection to patents, copyrights or businesses relating to the field of addiction. [2019]
Jamie Brown
Jamie Brown works at University College London and is predominantly funded by a CRUK programme grant. His research has also been funded by various research councils, UK government agencies and other charities (e.g., SSA, NPRI, NIHR, UKPRP and UK Department of Health). He has previously received unrestricted research funding relating to smoking cessation from the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and J&J, which manufactures smoking cessation medicines. He has never received personal fees or research funding from alcohol, e-cigarette or tobacco companies. [2023]
Luke Clark
Luke Clark is employed by the University of British Columbia, where he is the Director of the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC. The Centre is funded by the Province of British Columbia government and the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC), a Canadian Crown Corporation. He holds further research funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the British Columbia Ministry of Finance. He has received speaker travel reimbursements from the National Association of Gambling Studies (Australia), the National Center for Responsible Gaming (US), and Alberta Gambling Research Institute (Canada), and reviewer honoraria from the National Center for Responsible Gaming (US) and Gambling Research Exchange Ontario (Canada). He has not received any further direct or indirect payments from the gambling industry or groups substantially funded by gambling. He has received royalties from Cambridge Cognition Ltd. from the licensing of a neurocognitive test. [2019]
Suzanne Colby
Suzanne Colby is employed by Brown University’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior where she is affiliated with the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. Her research has been supported by grants and contracts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NCI, NIAAA, and NIDA), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the March of Dimes. She has received honoraria and travel expenses from US National Institutes of Health for grant review and advisory consultation. She receives book royalties from Guilford Press. She has never received support from industry sources such as pharmaceutical, alcohol or tobacco companies. [2019]
Tim Coleman
Since 2008, Tim Coleman has received payment from Pierre Farbre Laboratories - PFL (a French pharmaceutical company that manufactures nicotine replacement therapy) on 3 occasions. Twice payments were in recognition for contributions made to expert meetings on smoking-related topics and on the third occasion Tim spoke at a conference which was co-organised by PFL and received payment for time taken. The conference was GEST: a meeting of French smoking cessation specialists; PFL had no control over presentation content on any of these occasions. Tim has received no similar payments, either from PFL or any other organisation since 2014. [2019]
Janna Cousijn
Janna Cousijn holds a full-time appointment at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies. Her research has been supported by grants from the US National Institute of Health (NIH-NIDA); National Science Foundation, Netherlands (NWO); The European Commission (EC); The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZON-MW); and intramural funding from different Dutch universities. She has no financial conflicts of interest to declare. [2023]
Miles Cox
Miles Cox is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Bangor University in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, and External Examiner at the University of West London. He is a co-applicant on a grant funded by the Tryg Foundation of Denmark (2020-2023) and was co-applicant on a grant funded by Alcohol Research UK (2018-2020). He has no conflicts of interest to declare. [2020]
Sharon Cox
Sharon Cox is employed full time by London South Bank University. She has received research funding from Cancer Research UK, National Institute of Health Research and the Medical Research Council. She does not receive financial support from or work with the alcohol, tobacco or e-cigarette industry.
She has received research funding from the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Council. She also provides ad hoc expert consultancy to UK providers of life insurance on matters related to smoking cessation. [2020]
Shane Darke
Shane Darke is employed solely by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, a Research Centre of the University of New South Wales. The Centre, and his position, are funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Shane does no outside consultancy work, has never received funding from alcohol, pharmaceutical or tobacco companies, and holds no stock in any such companies. He is unaware of any potential conflicts of interest in his work on the editorial team of Addiction. [2019]
Jack Darkes
Over the last 30 years Jack Darkes has received financial support from a variety of research grants funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) and the U.S. Department of Education. He has been compensated as a scientific reviewer by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) and as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice (The United States Sentencing Commission). He has been compensated for writing book chapters as well as publishing articles in popular magazines and internet websites. As far as he is aware, he has no affiliations, memberships, or financial associations that constitute conflicts of interest with any of his editorial responsibilities for Addiction. [2019]
Neil Davies
Neil Davies has received grant funding from the Medical Research Council, Economics and Social Research Council, the Health Foundation, NIH, NHLBI, and previously received research funding from Pfizer. GRAND is an independently-reviewed competitive grants program supported by Pfizer to fund research into the treatment of tobacco and nicotine dependence. [2019]
Lynne Dawkins
Lynne Dawkins is employed full time by London South Bank University. Her research is funded by Cancer Research UK, the National Institute of Health Research and the Medical Research Council. She has provided consultancy for the pharmaceutical industry and acted as an expert witness for an e-cigarette patent infringement case. In the past (i.e. prior to 2013) she conducted research for several independent electronic cigarette companies for which the University of East London received funds. She has no links with, and has not received any funds from, the tobacco industry. [2020]
Tom Freeman
Tom Freeman is employed by the University of Bath. His research has been funded by government and charitable sources. As far as he is aware, he has no affiliations, memberships, or financial associations that constitute potential conflicts of interest with his editorial role for Addiction. [2021]
Gerhard Gmel
Over the past five years, Gerhard Gmel has received grants from governmental and cantonal sources, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the World Health Organization. He is currently employed at Addiction Switzerland (formerly the Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems), a NGO that receives donations from the Swiss general population. He is also employed at the Institute of addiction medicine, department of psychiatry at the Lausanne University Hospital. He has received fees from both institutes, the WHO, and the Swiss government for attending international meetings. He has received no direct or indirect support from the tobacco, alcohol, cannabis or gambling industry, the addiction treatment or prevention industry, or the pharmaceutical industry and holds no personal stock related to the field of addiction. [2019]
Wayne Hall (Strategic Advisor)
In the past five years, Wayne Hall has not received fees or funding of any kind from alcohol, pharmaceutical or tobacco companies. His research funding has been from the Australia Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. He received fees for preparing a literature review of the adverse health effects of cannabis from WHO (2016) and fees for reviewing evidence on the medical benefits of cannabis from: the Therapeutic Goods Administration of Australia (2017-2018); the EMCDDA (2018); and the International Narcotics Control Board (2018). [2019]
Matthew Hickman (Strategic Advisor)
Professor Matt Hickman holds a full-time post at Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol. Matt has never received any funding from alcohol or tobacco companies but has received unrestricted research grants as co-investigator and speaker fees from pharmaceutical companies and has received funds from charities with an interest in Addiction. Matt has no connection to any patents, copyrights or businesses relating to the addiction field. Matt is PI on multiple research grants held at University of Bristol which are in the field of addiction. [2019]
Katherine Hoggatt
Katherine Hoggatt receives salary support from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and from the University of California, San Francisco. She has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs. She has no other conflicts to declare. [2020]
John Holmes
John Holmes has no institutional or other associations which he believes cause a conflict of interest. He has not received any funds (direct or indirect) from the alcohol, tobacco or gambling industries, although he has received funding related to commissioned research from Systembolaget, the Swedish government-owned alcohol retail monopoly and Alko, its Finnish equivalent. His research is funded by grants, commissions and consultancy projects from research councils, medical charities and UK or international government bodies. He has also received monies to cover travel and subsistence expenses relating to speaking engagements from public and charitable bodies. He has received personal payments from the Western Australian Government (for a report on alcohol pricing policy) and from other public and charitable bodies for peer review activities. [2019]
Keith Humphreys
Keith Humphreys receives salary support as a civil servant in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and as a Professor at Stanford University, a private non-profit educational institution. He has received grants from government sources and from non-profit foundations, but has never received grants, honoraria or consulting fees from the tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, or gambling industries. He has accepted travel costs and speaking fees from professional societies and reviewing fees from academic publishers. He has no institutional affiliations or society memberships which he believes could reasonably be construed as potentially constituting conflict of interest. He is open to further enquiry from any reader of the journal who might wish to question him. [2023]
Sarah Jackson
Sarah Jackson works at University College London and is predominantly funded by a CRUK programme grant. She has never received personal fees or research funding from alcohol, e-cigarette or tobacco companies. [2023]
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly has received research funding from the United States’ National Institutes of Health. He has not received research funding or travel funds from any private organization, such as the alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical industries. He has no financial conflicts of interest to declare. [2019]
Daniel Kotz
Daniel Kotz is professor of addiction research and clinical epidemiology at the Institute of General Practice (ifam), Centre for Health and Society (chs), Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. His research of the last 5 years has been funded by grants from the Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia ("NRW-Rückkehrprogramm"), European Union Horizon 2020, and the German Federal Ministry of Health. In 2009, he received an unrestricted grant from Pfizer for an investigator-initiated trial on the effectiveness of practice nurse counselling and varenicline for smoking cessation in primary care (Dutch Trial Register NTR3067). He has never received personal fees, research funding or other direct or indirect support from the alcohol, e-cigarette or tobacco industry. [2020]
Emmanuel Kuntsche
In the last five years, Emmanuel Kuntsche has been employed at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In addition to university-internal grants, he has received funding from Australian Research Council, the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence "Alexander von Humboldt", the Veski Foundation, the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, Healthy Canberra, the Swiss National Science Foundation, Queensland Mental Health Commission, the New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. He has no affiliations, memberships, or financial associations that he believes constitute conflicts of interest with his editorial responsibilities for Addiction. [2023]
Julia Lappin
Julia Lappin is employed by the University of New South Wales and by South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. Her research has been funded by government and charitable sources. She is unaware of any potential conflicts of interest with her role on the Addiction editorial team. [2018]
Michael Livingston
Michael Livingston is employed by The National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University. He also holds honorary appointments at the Karolinska Institutet, Deakin University and La Trobe University. In the past five years he has had research funding from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), The Sax Institute, The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Systembolaget Research Council, The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education and The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation. Between 2017 and 2022 he was a board member of The Australian Rechabite Foundation, a charitable organisation that supports research, community action and advocacy projects, which build knowledge and support for action to reduce alcohol-related harm. He is currently a Director of the Alcohol and Drug Foundation of Australia. [2023]
Valentina Lorenzetti
Valentina Lorenzetti is employed by the Australian Catholic University. Her research funding has been from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the Al and Val Rosentrauss Research Fellowship, other government schemes and charitable foundations. She has never received fees or funding of any kind from alcohol, pharmaceutical or tobacco companies. As far as she is aware, she has no affiliations, memberships, or financial associations that constitute potential conflicts of interest with her editorial role for Addiction. [2019]
John Macleod
John Macleod has no conflicts of interest to declare. He is employed by Bristol University as Professor in Clinical Epidemiology and Primary Care. [2019]
Pia Mäkelä
Pia Mäkelä receives a personal income from a national research institute, which also finances most of her research. She has also received project funding from the NIAAA, EU, national science foundations, and governmental funding sources. She has received travel expenses and subsistence from the above mentioned funding sources and from the WHO. She has received fees for journalism and for presentations from various governmental and third sector agencies. Her project at her institute has received partial funding for survey data collection from the Finnish state alcohol retail monopoly ALKO. She has received an honorarium from the Swedish state alcohol monopoly for work regarding the monopoly. [2019]
Orla McBride
Orla McBride holds a full-time appointment at the School of Psychology, Ulster University. She holds, or has held, grants from the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). These are UK government funded bodies. She has no affiliations, memberships, or financial associations that constitute conflicts of interest with any of her editorial responsibilities for Addiction. [2020]
Rebecca McKetin
Rebecca McKetin is employed solely by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, a Research Centre of the University of New South Wales. The Centre, and her position, are funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. She has received research funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the Australian Government, NSW Health and ACT Health. She has never received funding from alcohol, pharmaceutical or tobacco companies, and holds no stock in any such companies. She is unaware of any potential conflicts of interest in her work on the editorial team of Addiction. [2020]
Ann McNeill
Ann McNeill is employed by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London and her research has been funded by government and charitable sources. She is a trustee of the Society for the Study of Addiction. She is unaware of any potential conflict of interest with her role on the Addiction editorial team. [2020]
Petra Meier
Petra Meier is a government-funded professor at the University of Sheffield. She receives funding for her scholarly activities from a wide range of grant givers, including UKRI, NIHR, government departments and health charities. She has also received funding for research by Systembolaget and Alko, both government-owned alcohol retail monopolies. She regularly carries out consultancy work for governmental bodies and for alcohol charities which leads to institutional income. She is a Scientific Advisor to the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS), for which she receives a personal fee. She has received no support from industry sources such as pharmaceutical, alcohol and tobacco companies and holds no personal stock. She declares no conflicts of interest. [2019]
Marcus Munafo
Marcus Munafò receives personal income from the University of Bristol. He has received research funding from various research councils and charities, which have included Action on Smoking and Health UK, the Alcohol Education and Research Council, and the European Research Advisory Board. He has also received grant funding from Pfizer. In addition, he has received nicotine replacement products from GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer for distribution to study participants. He has received consulting fees from the European Commission, Servier, the World Health Organisation, Cambridge Cognition Ltd and Jisc. He is co-director of Jericoe Ltd, which develops software for the assessment of emotion recognition ability, and chair of the Scientific Advisory Group of Evidence to Impact, a non-profit company that delivers public health interventions. [2019]
Jake Najman
Jake Najman has received grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australian Research Council (ARC) and from Queensland Health. He is chair of the National Policy Council for Drug Arm/Healthy Options Australia, an NGO providing community-based services to persons who seek help for their mental health or substance use problems. He has served as a reviewer/advisor to the NHMRC on alcohol policy and alcohol use guidelines. He is chair of the Queensland Coalition for Action on Alcohol (QCAA), a coalition of 12 organisations which directly advocate public health related policies to reduce the harms associated with the use of alcohol and drugs. Jake Najman is an Emeritus Professor in the Schools of Public Health and of Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. He believes he has no institutional or other associations which would constitute a conflict of interest in his work as a senior editor. [2020]
Joanne Neale
Joanne Neale is employed by King’s College London, where she is part funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London. Over the last twenty years, she has directed or worked on studies funded by Government Departments, Research Councils and Charitable Trusts. She has received no support from industry sources such as pharmaceutical, alcohol and tobacco companies and holds no personal stock. [2019]
Lia Nower
Lia Nower has consulted with advocacy, regulatory, and consumer groups around responsible gambling initiatives; has received research support from state, private, and regulatory agencies on problem and responsible gambling and gambling treatment; has consulted for and/or advised gambling and legal entities on issues related to problem gambling, gambling disorder, and responsible gambling, including Crown Casino, Camelot, BCLC, Aristocrat, Churchill Downs; has provided clinical treatment for problem gambling; has performed grant reviews for research-funding agencies; has edited journals; has given academic lectures in clinical or scientific venues; and has generated book chapters for publishers of scholarly texts. [2021]
Amy Peacock
Amy Peacock has no institutional or other associations which she believes constitute a conflict of interest. She is employed by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, a research centre within the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The Centre and one of her programs of work, Drug Trends, is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. Her position is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Emerging Leadership Fellowship (2020>) and was formerly funded (2016-2019) by an NHMRC Early Career Researcher Fellowship. She holds or has held other research funding from the National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED) and ACT Health in the past three years. She has an adjunct role in the School of Psychological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. She has received untied educational grant from Seqirus (2017-2020) and Mundipharma (2013-2015) for post-marketing surveillance of opioid medications in Australia. Funding bodies had no role in study design, analysis and reporting. She received placebo samples from Red Bull GmBH for an experimental study (2012); no financial support was provided and this organization had no involvement in design, interpretation or reporting of the work. [2023]
Lion Shahab
Lion Shahab is a HEFCE funded member of staff at University College London. He has received an honorarium for a talk, an unrestricted research grant and travel expenses to attend meetings and workshops from Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company that makes smoking cessation products, and has acted as paid reviewer for grant awarding bodies. Other research has been funded by the government, a community-interested company (National Centre for Smoking Cessation) and charitable sources. He has never received personal fees or research funding of any kind from alcohol, electronic cigarette or tobacco companies. [2019]
Mehmet Sofuoglu
Mehmet Sofuoglu receives research funding from the US Food and Drug Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Department of Veterans Affairs. He has previously served as an expert witness in a lawsuit on behalf of Pfizer. He has never received support from tobacco, alcohol or pharmaceutical industry and does not hold any patents and copyrights. [2021]
Maxine Stitzer
Maxine Stitzer has over the past five years conducted research projects whose funding sources have derived solely from federal agencies (NIDA, FDA). She has received personal fees and travel expenses from US National Institutes of Health (NIDA), for grant review and consulting fees from two companies (Sandoz;DynamiCare Health, Inc) for work related to development of digital therapeutic products for substance use disorder. She holds no personal stock in pharmaceutical, alcohol, tobacco or digital therapeutic companies with which she has consulted. [2020]
Kyla Thomas
Kyla Thomas is a Consultant Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Bristol and Clinical Director for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network West of England. She also holds Honorary Consultant roles with South Gloucestershire Council and Public Health England. Kyla has never received any funding from pharmaceutical, alcohol or tobacco companies. However, she has received personal fellowships and grants from the NIHR and the Academy of Medical Sciences. Kyla is currently funded by an NIHR postdoctoral fellowship award. Kyla has no connection to any patents, copyrights or businesses related to the addiction field. She has been Principal and Co-Investigator on multiple research grants held at the University of Bristol in the field of addiction (effectiveness and safety of smoking cessation medicines and electronic cigarettes and prescription opioid dependence). [2020]
Christine Timko
Christine Timko receives salary support as a civil servant in the US Department of Veterans Affairs. She has received grants from US government sources and non-profit foundations, but has never received grants, honoraria, or consulting fees from manufacturers of medications for addicted patients or the tobacco or alcohol industry. She has accepted travel costs and speaking fees from professional societies. She has no institutional affiliations or society memberships which she believes could reasonably be construed as potentially constituting conflict of interest and is open to further enquiry from any reader of the journal who might wish to question her. [2023]
Jodie Trafton
Dr. Trafton is an employee of the United States federal government, paid to conduct evaluation of the addiction treatment programs of the Veterans Health Administration. [2015]
Carla Treloar
Carla Treloar is currently in a University post with funding from the Australian Commonwealth Government. She is a member of state and national advisory committees to health ministers and on advisory committees for a number of government and non-government organisations in the area of hepatitis C, injecting drug use and drug treatment. She has undertaken consultancy in unrelated areas for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture or research products for hepatitis C treatment. She has received research grants from government departments, health agencies and non-government organisations. She has received travel support from the National Canadian Research Training Program in Hepatitis C, Australasian Society of HIV Medicine, Hepatitis Australia, International Network for Hepatitis in Substance Users, Australian Illicit and Injecting Drug Users League for plenary lectures. She has received speaker fees from pharmaceutical companies involved in the manufacture of medicines to treat hepatitis C. She holds no stock in any companies. [2019]
Robert West (Strategic Advisor)
Robert West has received travel funds and hospitality from, and undertaken research and consultancy for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture or research products aimed at helping smokers to stop. These products include nicotine replacement therapies, Champix (varenicline) and Zyban (bupropion). This has led to payments to him personally and to his institution. He undertakes lectures and training in smoking cessation methods which have led to payments to him personally and to his institution. He has received research grants from medical charities and government departments. He is an unpaid advisor to the UK's National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training. [2019]
Reinout Wiers
Reinout Wiers's research is primarily paid by national grant agencies (N.W.O., National Science Foundation, Netherlands; ZON-MW, Medical Research Counsil, The Netherlands) and University money. His research is not sponsored by tobacco or alcohol companies. He was co-applicant in a gambling grant, which included money from the (Belgian) gambling-industry and was awarded by after an independent scientific evaluation (peer reviewed), with guarantee of completely independent scientific expression, in accordance with the Dublin principles. He is also involved in a UvA AxA spin-off project which is aimed at detecting problem gamblers online and offering them help. [2020]