Major Initiatives

NIAAA’s major initiatives seek to address alcohol-related issues across the lifespan.
Our aim is to reduce the tremendous burden of illness resulting from the misuse of alcohol by:

• Preventing children and adolescents from beginning and continuing to drink alcohol
• Offering effective intervention for problem alcohol use at all ages

To accomplish this, we support research in areas ranging from basic science to clinical studies and from genetics to neuroscience to epidemiology.

Major Initiatives we support include:

• Adolescent Brain
  - The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
  - National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA)
  - Neurobiology of Adolescent Drinking in Adulthood (NADIA)

   

• Collaborative Research on Addiction at the National Institutes of Health (CRAN)
   
• Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) Study 
   
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Program
   
• HIV/AIDS and Alcohol Research Program
   
• Institutional Research Training Programs
   
• Interagency Work Group on Drinking and Drug Use in Women and Girls 
   
• Medications Development
   
• Minority Health and Health Disparities (MHHD) and Diversity Training Resources
   
• NIAAA-Funded Research Centers
   
• NIH Brain Initiative
   
• Research Training Programs
   
• Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Research (SBIR/STTR) Program
   
• Underage and College Drinking Research Program