The Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Attention and alcohol” discusses the original article, “Attentional biases for alcohol-Stroop test in patients with alcohol dependence” by Preiti Modi, Lipika Malik, Vikas Punia, Krishan Kumar, and Rajeev Dogra, and published in the July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2 of OJPAS®.