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Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2016
Saturday, November 12, 2016, 12:00 am EST to Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 12:00 am EST

Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting 2016 At this year’s Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in San Diego, NIH staff will be available to assist with questions about NIH grants, research training opportunities, fellowships, and programs. The SfN exhibit hall will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 13, through Wednesday, November 16, and NIH staff...

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National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week begins January 23
For Release
Event registration opens today; new teacher resources available. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) announced today that the next National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week (NDAFW) will be held Jan. 23-29, 2017, with event registration beginning immediately. NDAFW is an annual, week-long observance that brings together teens and scientific...

Announcement

Frontiers in Addiction Research Mini-Convention - "Relapse and Recovery: from Mechanistic Understanding to Translational Research"
November 11, 2016, 8:30am - 5:30pm San Diego Convention Center, Room 7; San Diego, California Visit the Web site Summary The theme of this year’s mini-convention is on relapse and recovery, with an emphasis on integration of preclinical and clinical research and leveraging insights from big data approaches. The symposium will highlight notable studies in drug and alcohol research, in...

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National Drugs & Alcohol Chat Day
Monday, January 22, 2018, 12:00 am EST
Join us for DRUGS & ALCOHOL CHAT DAY to be held on January 22, 2018 , during National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week SM National Drugs & Alcohol Chat Day is an annual live online chat held between high school students and NIDA and NIAAA scientists during National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week SM Students from around the country ask...

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Twitter Chat: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 1:00 pm EDT

Join us on Twitter: September 13 On, Tuesday, September 13, 1:00 p.m. ET, NIAAA will participate in a #FASDchat hosted by NOFAS , the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Participating in the chat day are; the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), part of the Centers for...

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Recruitment begins for landmark study of adolescent brain development
More than 10,000 children will participate in study of brain, social, emotional, and cognitive development. Recruitment for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States, began today. The landmark study by the National Institutes of Health will follow the biological and behavioral development of more than 10,000...

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Twitter chat with ASAM #AlcoholChat
Thursday, October 6, 2016, 12:30 pm EDT

NIAAA will host a Twitter chat with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Chat with @NIAAAnews and @ASAMorg about medication options for alcohol use disorder. October 6 at 12:30pm # AlcoholChat This event takes place in conjunction with ASAM's State of the Art Course in Addiction Medicine , October 6 - 8 in Washington, DC.

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Congressional briefing on the ABCD Study
Monday, September 19, 2016, 12:00 pm EDT

The Congressional briefing entitled “Brain Development and Our Kids’ Future: the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study” is sponsored by the Friends of NIAAA and the Friends of NIDA, in cooperation with the Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus. Please RSVP here : [ https://goo.gl/forms/RUopnqsSwUhBHFo63 ] Contact Cynthia Malley ( cmalley@apa.org ) Read more at https://www.addictionresearch.nih.gov/congressional-briefing-abcd-study…

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NIH News: HHS takes steps to provide more information about clinical trials to the public
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News NIH Office of the Director (OD) https://www.nih.gov/institutes-nih/nih-office-director For Immediate Release: Friday, September 16, 2016 CONTACT: NIH News Media Branch, 301-496-5787, nihnmb@mail.nih.gov In an effort to make information about clinical trials widely available to the public, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today issued a final...
NIAAA Acting Director's Statement before the Senate Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Approporiations on FY2010 Budget Request for NIAAA, May 21, 2009

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: I am pleased to present the President’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget request for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The FY 2010 budget includes $455,149,000, which is $4,919,000 more than the FY 2009 appropriation of $450,230,000. NIAAA’s long-range vision for medicine with respect...

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