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Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that a new issue of IJADR, the KBS Society journal, has just been published. This is a special issue of papers from a KBS thematic meeting on “Addiction: What is the added value of the concept today?” held at Hotel Majvik, Helsinki, Finland, on October 14-17, 2012. This issue was edited by Anita Borch and Varpu Rantala and contains a fascinating group of papers. The papers are listed below and can be accessed at http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/issue/view/19. All the best from the IJADR Editorial team. Vol 4, No 1 (2015) Addiction: A highly successful, essentially contested concept<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/200> Anita Borch, Varpu Rantala Models of addiction and types of interventions: An integrative look<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/198> Roland Simon, Robert West Addiction-as-a-kind hypothesis<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/189> Petri Ylikoski, Samuli Pöyhönen Addiction: The dance between concept and terms<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/199> Robin Room, Matilda Hellman, Kerstin Stenius The Italian “alcohol question” from 1860 to 1930: Two opposing scientific interpretations<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/193> Enrico Petrilli, Franca Beccaria The brain craving for gambling? Neurosciences and addiction concept in clinical practice<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/202> Ilpo Helén, Joonas Toivio Neurobiological research on addiction: What value has it added to the concept?<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/196> Harold Kalant The risks of cannabis and other illicit drugs: Views among French and Finnish addiction treatment providers<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/201> Laurence Simmat-Durand, Anja Koski-Jännes Problem gambling—a Lacanian Real<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/197> Anita Borch Is addiction a myth? Donald Davidson’s solution to the problem of akrasia says not*<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/195> Nick Heather, Gabriel Segal Addiction, recovery and moral agency: Philosophical considerations<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/190> Susanne Uusitalo Addiction as an adaptation process in the brain, a view from neurobiology<http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/194> Esa R. Korpi -- The University is ranked in the QS World Rankings of the top 5% of universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2014) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.