National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

An analysis of U.S. death certificate data by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, found that nearly 1 million people died from alcohol-related causes between 1999 and 2017. The number of death certificates mentioning alcohol more than doubled from 35,914 in 1999 to 72,558 in 2017, the year...

January 13, 2020

Few observations in psychiatry have been documented as long and as consistently as the association between anxiety and the chronic misuse of alcohol. Research has shown that up to 50% of individuals receiving treatment for problematic alcohol use also met diagnostic criteria for one or more anxiety disorders. The latest article from Alcohol Research Current Reviews provides an overview of...

Mon, 01/13/2020 - 12:00

Mon, 01/13/2020 - 12:00

People with a genetic variant of a neurotransmitter gene may have an increased risk of addiction to alcohol and other substances later in life if they were exposed to childhood stress, such as divorce or emotionally distant parents, and other adverse experiences, according to recent research. The study led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in...

Open Session of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Agenda is now posted, and the webcast link is now available.

Children born to mothers who both drank and smoked beyond the first trimester of pregnancy have a 12-fold increased risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) compared to those unexposed or only exposed in the first trimester of pregnancy, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health. SIDS is the sudden, unexplained, death of an infant...

What : The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, announces that Laura E. Nagy, Ph.D., will deliver the 24th Annual Mark Keller Honorary Lecture. The title of her presentation is “Inflammation and Cell Death in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease.” Who : Dr. Nagy is currently a professor of molecular medicine at the...

The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) National Leadership Forum is Febuary 3 - Febuary 6. The event also includes SAMHSA's 16th Prevention Day. To learn more and register visit https://www.cadca.org/forum2020

This conference has been canceled. Please visit the NASPA website for information about registration refunds and other FAQs.

January 27, 2020

Data from large epidemiological studies highlight the intertwined nature of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and personality disorders. This review: describes the co-occurrence of AUD with antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder examines prevalence and effects of these personality disorders and their co-occurrence with AUD discusses the treatment and overall implications of these complex co-occurrences To learn more, read the...

Thu, 02/06/2020 - 12:00

Thu, 02/06/2020 - 12:00

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism sadly announces the death of Richard L. Veech, MD, DPhil, Chief of the NIAAA Laboratory of Metabolic Control. Dr. Veech joined NIH after earning his bachelor’s and medical degrees at Harvard and his DPhil at Oxford under the tutelage of Hans Krebs. While in the process of completing his graduate work at...

FY 2021 Budget Justification

Mark Egli, Ph.D. Purpose The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) seeks to continue the Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA), a translational, multidisciplinary, collaborative research effort studying brain mechanisms of excessive alcohol drinking associated with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and the relationship between excessive drinking, stress, and anxiety. The primary goal of INIA is to identify brain...

Wenxing Zha, Ph.D.; Abbas Parsian, Ph.D. Reissuance of PA-17-467(R01), PA-17-468(R03) Purpose The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to solicit applications to support the secondary analyses of existing data sets with the goal of enhancing our understanding of the following: 1) the patterns and trajectories of alcohol consumption, and 2) the epidemiology and etiology, including genetics, of...

Grace Chang, MD, MPH, is Professor and Head of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School /VA Boston Healthcare. She is the Director of the Chief of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry service. A graduate of Yale College and Rutgers Medical School, she received her training in General Adult Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine where she was subsequently a Robert Wood...

Based on guidance by NIH regarding COVID-19, the CHAT DAY scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, 2020 has been cancelled. Please stay tuned - we will connect with all registrants about the next chat day opportunity. You can still access the 2019 transcript to see if your questions were answered.

Due to the increasing health concerns and escalating developments that have occurred over the last several days regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a face-to-face NSTA meeting in Boston on April 2–5, 2020 will no longer take place. Read the NSTA announcement for more information.

After careful consideration and evaluation of the latest developments in COVID-19, the ASAM Board of Directors has made the difficult decision to cancel The ASAM 51st Annual Conference – Innovations in Addiction Medicine in Science and pre-conference courses scheduled April 2-5, 2020 in Denver, CO. For more details visit the ASAM website .

Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:00

Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:00

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is as effective as established behavioral treatments for some people with alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to an extensive review of NIAAA-supported research and other studies. As reported March 11 in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Review , researchers used a meta-analysis to show that AA and other 12-step facilitation interventions are effective in helping individuals with...