A clarion call to the addiction science community: It's time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration

Thomas F Babor¹, Bryon Adinoff², Luke Clark³, David Crockford⁴, Zsolt Demetrovics^{5

6}, Paul Dietze⁷, Jean-Sébastien Fallu⁸, Sally Gainsbury⁹, Gail Gilchrist¹⁰, David A Gorelick¹¹, Kathryn Graham¹², Jason Grebely¹³, Derek Heim¹⁴, Matilda Hellman^{15

16}, Anne-Marie Laslett¹⁷, Caravella McCuistian¹⁸, Michal Miovsky¹⁹, Neo K Morojele²⁰, Jacek Moskalewicz²¹, Isidore S Obot²², Richard Pates²³, Robin Room¹⁷, Marta Rychert²⁴, Aysel Sultan²⁵, Carla Treloar²⁶, Nigel E Turner²⁷, Samantha Wells²⁸, Emily C Williams²⁹, Katie Witkiewitz³⁰

Affiliations

¹ 1Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA.
² 2University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA.
³ 3Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
⁴ 4Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada.
⁵ 5Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia.
⁶ 6Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
⁷ 7Disease Elimination Program, Burnet Institute; Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
⁸ 8School of Psychoeducation, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
⁹ 9University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁰ 10Addictions Healthcare Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK.
¹¹ 11University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹² 12Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹³ 13The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁴ 14Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK.
¹⁵ 15Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
¹⁶ 16Faculty of Social Sciences; University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁷ 17Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁸ 18Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁹ 19Department of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
²⁰ 20Department of Psychology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
²¹ 21Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland.
²² 22Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse, Uyo, Nigeria.
²³ 23University of Worcester, UK.
²⁴ 24SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, College of Health, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
²⁵ 25Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
²⁶ 26Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Australia.
²⁷ 27Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Campbell Family Mental Health Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
²⁸ 28Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addition and Mental Health; Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
²⁹ 29Department of Health Systems & Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
³⁰ 30Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

PMID: 40392616
PMCID: PMC12231465
DOI: 10.1556/2006.2025.00033

Editorial

A clarion call to the addiction science community: It's time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration

Thomas F Babor et al. J Behav Addict. 2025.

. 2025 May 20;14(2):567-570.

doi: 10.1556/2006.2025.00033.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ 1Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA.
² 2University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA.
³ 3Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
⁴ 4Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada.
⁵ 5Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia.
⁶ 6Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
⁷ 7Disease Elimination Program, Burnet Institute; Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
⁸ 8School of Psychoeducation, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
⁹ 9University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁰ 10Addictions Healthcare Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK.
¹¹ 11University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹² 12Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹³ 13The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁴ 14Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK.
¹⁵ 15Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
¹⁶ 16Faculty of Social Sciences; University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁷ 17Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁸ 18Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁹ 19Department of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
²⁰ 20Department of Psychology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
²¹ 21Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland.
²² 22Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse, Uyo, Nigeria.
²³ 23University of Worcester, UK.
²⁴ 24SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, College of Health, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
²⁵ 25Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
²⁶ 26Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Australia.
²⁷ 27Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Campbell Family Mental Health Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
²⁸ 28Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addition and Mental Health; Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
²⁹ 29Department of Health Systems & Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
³⁰ 30Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

PMID: 40392616
PMCID: PMC12231465
DOI: 10.1556/2006.2025.00033

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Information about first publication: This editorial has been published on 1 April 2025 in the Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (https://doi.org/10.1177/14550725251325970) by SAGE Journals (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14550725251325970) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

In the first sentence the number of authors has been corrected to 29. ORCID IDs of the authors have been added to the metadata, and Jason Grebely has been moved in authors’ order alphabetically.

Conflicts of interest: ZD is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.

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