Carmel Clancy, PhD, Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Mental Health and Social Work, School of Health and Education, Faculty of Professional & Social Sciences, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom.

Peter Kelly, MSc, BSc (Hons), Dip Counseling, Dip H/Ed, RPN, Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Christien Loth, PhD, MANP, MN, RN, LOTH Nursing Consultancy, Groenlo, and GGZVS (MANP Mental Health), Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article.

The writers each have had an equal input and a share in writing both the editorial and the article on addiction nursing in Europe. Following the Vancouver guideline, we decided to use the alphabetical order.

Correspondence related to content to: Christien Loth, PhD, MANP, MN, RN, LOTH Nursing Consultancy, Buitenschans 64B, 7141 EL Groenlo, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]