If you manage the health and well-being of 9- to 18-year-olds, this Guide is for you. “Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner’s Guide” is designed to help health care professionals quickly identify youth at risk for alcohol-related problems. NIAAA developed the Guide and Pocket Guide in collaboration with a team of underage drinking researchers and clinical specialists...

For Health Care Professionals Screening and risk assessment The quick two-question screening tool and risk level estimates in Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth will give you a good idea as to your patients’ level of risk for alcohol-related problems. If you wish to follow up with other tools, two to consider are the 10-question AUDIT and the 6-question...

March 26-27, 2018 Food and Drug Administration Great Room – White Oak Campus 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD Home General Info Agenda Accommodations and Logistics Contact Registration Our Sponsors Agenda Clinical Trial Design and Endpoints for Alcoholic Hepatitis (AH) and other Alcohol-Associated Liver Diseases (AALD) Link for watching the workshop remotely: https://collaboration.fda.gov/greatv/ Organizers: Lara Dimick-Santos Svetlana Radaeva Gyongyi...

March 26-27, 2018 Food and Drug Administration Great Room – White Oak Campus 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD Home General Info Agenda Accommodations and Logistics Contact Registration Our Sponsors Accommodations and Logistics Link for watching the workshop remotely: https://collaboration.fda.gov/greatv/ https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/workingatfda/buildingsandfacilities/whiteo… Additional requirements: No Federal Funds may be used for provision of facilitation of food. workshop attendees and/or presenters...

March 26-27, 2018 Food and Drug Administration Great Room – White Oak Campus 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD Home General Info Agenda Accommodations and Logistics Contact Registration Our Sponsors Contact Bridgette Green, Logistics greenbd@mail.nih.gov Svetlana Radaeva, Scientific Contact or the Agenda sradaeva@mail.nih.gov Gyongyi Szabo, Scientific Contact or the Agenda Gyongyi.Szabo@umassmed.edu Link for watching the workshop remotely: https://collaboration.fda.gov/greatv/

March 26-27, 2018 Link for watching the workshop remotely: https://collaboration.fda.gov/greatv/ Food and Drug Administration Great Room – White Oak Campus 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD Home General Info Agenda Accommodations and Logistics Contact Registration Our Sponsors Registration To register, visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AlcoholicHepatitisWorkshop This is an external link to a third-party site for the purpose of conference registration. The NIAAA...

Bill Dunty, PhD; Elizabeth Powell, PhD; Tatiana Balachova, PhD; and Deidra Roach, MD NIAAA FASD Working Group Concept Clearance Purpose The purpose of this concept is to support research that advances interventions for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and prevention approaches to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure and the incidence of FASD. Background Prenatal alcohol exposure is a leading preventable cause...

Date: April 1, 2022 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Details: The 2022 Annual Public Meeting of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD) will be held on April 1, 2022, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST, ONLINE. View the meeting agenda. The meeting is on NIH Videocast and will be available live and archived at https://videocast.nih.gov The...

Alcohol perils increase for young adults during COVID What: Recent media reports serve as stark reminders that alcohol remains a danger to college students during the on-going pandemic. Since the Spring 2021 semester began, alcohol has caused or contributed to at least four deaths on college campuses. Now many college students are flocking to Spring Break destinations, raising the prospect...

Did you know that language commonly used to describe alcohol misuse and alcohol use disorder (AUD) can influence treatment outcomes in people suffering from alcohol problems? Yes, that can often be the case. In fact, the stigma perpetuated by such language can decrease a person’s motivation to seek help for an alcohol problem

This December marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). As I look back over the past five decades, I am proud of our tremendous accomplishments and the progress we have made in alcohol research.

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, also known as FASD, is a term that refers to the broad range of lifelong birth defects and neurodevelopmental abnormalities that occur as a result of prenatal alcohol exposure.

This article was first published in NIAAA Spectrum Volume 15, Issue 2. Using alcohol to cope with social anxiety is associated with increased substance use and more consequences among young adults, according to a study by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)-supported researchers. The findings also suggest that young adults who drink to cope with social anxiety experience...

Supporting research to inform the development and implementation of alcohol policies and to evaluate their effectiveness has been an important priority of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for many years. Alcohol policy represents a broad approach for intervening with alcohol misuse and related problems that can affect all individuals within a jurisdiction. Alcohol policy strategies commonly...

Using New Definitions and Tools to Support Alcohol Recovery December 6, 2022 Noon-1:15 p.m. ET NIH Videocast Time Presenters 12:00 – 12:05 Welcome George F. Koob, Ph.D. 12:05 – 12:10 A Brief Introduction to the NIAAA Research Definition of Recovery from DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorder Brett Hagman, Ph.D. 12:10 – 12:30 NIAAA's New Recovery Definition: Utility and Uptake John Kelly...

Joe Wang, Division of Metabolism and Health Effects Purpose The purpose of the proposed NOFOs is to solicit applications to continue the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD) consortium. CIFASD is an NIAAA-funded initiative conducting Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) research through multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches. Applications responsive to these NOFOs should address urgent and important issues around...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has released a major update to the Alcohol Facts and Statistics webpage. The content of this popular online resource has been expanded with demographic and other data and is now reorganized for improved readability and easier navigability. The webpage can be found on the main NIAAA website in the Alcohol’s Effects...

Alcohol-Related Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations and Their Co-Occurring Drug-Related, Mental Health, and Injury Conditions in the United States: Findings from the 2006–2010 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) and Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) September 2013 National Institutes of Health National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 5635 Fishers Lane, MSC 9304 Bethesda, MD 20892‑9304 Acknowledgments This publication was developed by...

La adicción al alcohol es un trastorno crónico recurrente asociado con el consumo compulsivo de alcohol, la pérdida del control sobre la ingesta y la aparición de un estado emocional negativo cuando el alcohol ya no está disponible. El trastorno por consumo de alcohol (AUD, por su sigla en inglés) es una afección caracterizada por la capacidad deteriorada para detener...