How Addiction handles disagreements over potentially harmful terminology

Keith Humphreys^{1

2

3}, Rob Calder⁴, John Marsden³, Ed Day⁵

Affiliations

¹ VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
² Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
⁴ The Society for the Study of Addiction, Northampton, UK.
⁵ Addiction Psychiatry, Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

Editorial

Keith Humphreys et al. Addiction. 2023 Oct.

. 2023 Oct;118(10):1833-1834.

doi: 10.1111/add.16302. Epub 2023 Jul 24.

Keith Humphreys^{1

2

3}, Rob Calder⁴, John Marsden³, Ed Day⁵

¹ VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
² Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
⁴ The Society for the Study of Addiction, Northampton, UK.
⁵ Addiction Psychiatry, Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: debate; dialogue; harm; journal policy; language; stigma.

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