News Advisory: Updated Guide Offers Clinicians New Tools to Help Patients With Alcohol Problems
News Advisory Updated Guide Offers Clinicians New Tools to Help Patients With Alcohol Problems What: Announces update of Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician’s Guide, produced by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Why: The updated Guide includes a new medications management program that consists of brief...
Alcohol Abuse Increases, Dependence Declines Across Decade: Young Adult Minorities Emerge As High-Risk Subgroups
The number of American adults who abuse alcohol or are alcohol dependent rose from 13.8 million (7.41 percent) in 1991-1992 to 17.6 million (8.46 percent) in 2001-2002, according to results from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), a study directed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The NESARC study -- a...
Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Estimated at $246 Billion in the United States
A new study released today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), estimates that the economic cost of alcohol and drug abuse was $246 billion in 1992, the most recent year for which sufficient data were available. This estimate represents $965 for every man...
Screening and brief interventions performed by ER staff can reduce alcohol consumption and impaired driving
Research shows that primary health care providers can promote significant, lasting reductions in drinking levels and alcohol-related problems by asking patients about alcohol use and briefly advising them to reduce risky drinking. In a new study, researchers supported by NIAAA showed that doctors and nurses in an emergency department can also do effective brief interventions for patients who report risky...
National Alcohol Screening Day (April 6) A National Wake-up Call - APRIL 4 Media Briefing To Kick Off Event
"What are you waiting for - last call, or a wake-up call?" is the question to be posed by alcohol research and treatment leaders at a media briefing to be held 10:30-11:30 A.M., Tuesday, April 4, in Georgetown University's Copley Hall. The briefing launches the second annual National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD), a national outreach program designed to educate people...
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CRAN Blog: Saving a “Lost Generation” - The Need to Prevent Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Midlife
142nd Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM June 9, 2016
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM AGENDA 142 nd Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM June 9, 2016 Fishers Lane, Terrace Conference Rooms, Rockville MD 20852 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 10:15 CALL TO ORDER AND INTRODUCTIONS Dr. George Koob 10:30 HUGHES AWARD PRESENTATION Dr...
NIAAA Spectrum: New NESARC data providing key information on prevalence of alcohol and substance abuse
The NIAAA-sponsored National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions–III (NESARC–III), conducted from 2012 to 2013, is the newest wave of the largest study ever conducted on alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use and disorders; related risk factors; and associated physical and mental disabilities. With data on more than 36,000 U.S. adults, NESARC–III promises to be a primary source of...
NIAAA Spectrum: Clinical Course of Alcohol Use Disorder in Young Adult Native and Mexican Americans
In a recent study, Cindy L. Ehlers, Ph.D., and colleagues examined the clinical course of alcohol use disorder (AUD)—as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM–5)—in a sample of young adult (ages 18–30) individuals of Mexican American (MA) and Native American (NA) descent. Face-to-face interviews using the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism...
[ARCHIVED] NIAAA strategic plan 2017-2021 aims to advance alcohol research across a broad spectrum of areas
NIH Names Dr. George Koob Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the selection of George F. Koob, Ph.D., as Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Koob is expected to join the NIH in January 2014. “With his distinguished reputation and vision, I am confident that George will encourage innovative ideas in the basic neurobiology...
Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD) Exploratory/Developmental Research Projects (Re-issue of RFA-AA-17-012)
Li to Step Down as Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Bethesda, Maryland — Ting-Kai Li, M.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) since November 2002, announced today that he will step down from his post and retire from Federal service, effective October 31, 2008. Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D., the NIAAA Deputy Director since February 2008, will serve as Acting Director of the Institute while a...
Largest Ever Comorbidity Study Reports Prevalence and Co-Occurrence of Alcohol, Drug, Mood and Anxiety Disorders
An estimated 17.6 million American adults (8.5 percent) meet standard diagnostic criteria for an alcohol use disorder * and approximately 4.2 million (2 percent) meet criteria for a drug use disorder. Overall, about one-tenth (9.4 percent) of American adults, or 19.4 million persons, meet clinical criteria for a substance use disorder--either an alcohol or drug use disorder or both--according to...
Multi-disciplinary approach to advance care and outcomes in patients with alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD)
OBJECTIVES To enhance the understanding on the burden of alcohol use and alcohol-associated liver disease in the United States To enhance understanding of the concomitant mental health and substance use disorders among patients with alcohol use and alcohol-associated liver disease To bridge the clinical gaps in the alcohol-associated liver disease diagnosis, management and clinical trial design To disseminate the NIAAA-sponsored...