“…In affording respect to each of these realms, researchers honor what Kass (2002) describes as "the rich broth of our social, civil, cultural, and spiritual life together and of the ways in which it seasons us without our knowledge" (p. 65). The well-being of the individual, of institutions, and of society as a whole is at stake in assessing the ethical issues that arise in addiction research, as illustrated by recent studies of corporate social responsibility programs, research on chronic drug users, and the use of animals involved in addiction research (Casswell, 2013;Fisher, 2011;Lynch et al, 2010;Miller et al, 2011). Consider the following scenario as an invitation to apply our discussion up to this point to the realities of a possible research publication situation:…”