Understanding Responsible Drinking Is in the Service of Evidence-based Public Health: A Response to Petticrew et al. (2020)

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Notes

1. Petticrew et al. (2020) fault us for not providing readers with more information about the “Stop Out of Control Drinking” campaign. Unfortunately, it would not be feasible for us to provide the full cultural and historical context of every intervention that was evaluated in these 55 studies we reviewed.

2. We followed the journal’s instructions regarding the presentation of acknowledgments to allow for blinded review. Specifically, we submitted to the journal’s editor a separate, non-blinded title page that included the FAAR acknowledgment and indicated that we had generated an additional list of funding sources beyond this particular study. Likewise, because our complete list of funding sources is not compatible with blinded review, we submitted a blinded version of our Online supplemental material document that included this statement: “Subsequent to blinded peer review, the Online Supplemental Material will list sources of funding for the authors and their institution beyond this particular research project.” Once our publication was in press, we prepared a new version of the Online Supplemental Material, complete with all funding sources beyond this particular study, and provided it to the journal’s editor.

3. In the seven months that elapsed between our submission of the manuscript and preparation of this response, we reported these funding sources on at least four public-facing webpages (e.g., https://www.basisonline.org/2019/10/whats-next-in-open-science-for-the-division-on-addiction.html).

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Funding

Our preparation of this response was not supported by any particular funder. The Division on Addiction currently receives funding from the Addiction Treatment Center of New England via SAMHSA; EPIC Risk Management; The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (FAAR); DraftKings; the Gavin Foundation via the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); GVC Holdings, PLC; The Healing Lodge of the Seven Nations via the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of General Medical Sciences and National Institute on Drug Abuse); Health Resources in Action via the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Office of Problem Gambling Services; The Integrated Centre on Addiction Prevention and Treatment of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Hong Kong; St. Francis House via the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Addiction Services; and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas via MGM Resorts International. During the past 5 years, the Division on Addiction has also received funding from Aarhus University Hospital with funds approved by The Danish Council for Independent Research; ABMRF – The Foundation for Alcohol Research; Caesars Enterprise Services, LLC; the David H. Bor Library Fund, Cambridge Health Alliance; DraftKings; Fenway Community Health Center, Inc.; Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services; Massachusetts Gaming Commission, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and University of Nevada, Las Vegas via MGM Resorts International. The supplemental material for our original manuscript also provides funding sources for the individual authors.