The International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction offers a forum for up-to-date information and developments in mental health and addiction-related research, policy, phenomenology, literature, and treatment. Through publishing high-quality peer-reviewed articles, it is our aim to seek and lead an international debate on mental health and addiction-related issues, and to help make sense of how mental health and addiction affect individuals and societies.Our Journal covers areas in psychology, sociology, anthropology, criminology, public health, history, law, literature, and other fields pertaining to mental health and addiction. The Journal publishes feature articles, review articles, clinical notes, research notes, first person accounts, letters to the editor, commentaries, conference reports, book reviews and abstracts in all of these areas. We publish 4 times a year.