National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM Summary of the 119th Meeting September 17–18, 2008 The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism convened for its 119th meeting at 5:30 p.m. on September 17, 2008, at the Fishers Lane Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland , in a closed session. Dr. Abraham Bautista presided over the closed review of...

The consequences of college drinking are larger and more destructive than commonly realized, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Commissioned by the NIAAA Task Force on College Drinking, the study reveals that drinking by college students age 18-24 contributes to an estimated 1,400 student deaths, 500,000 injuries, and 70,000 cases...

Findings from the largest survey ever mounted on the co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders among U.S. adults afford a sharper picture than previously available of major depressive disorder* (MDD) in specific population subgroups and of MDD’s relationship to alcohol use disorders (AUDs) ** and other mental health conditions. The new analysis of data from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is dedicated to discovery: uncovering new knowledge that leads to better health for everyone. NIAAA scientists generate a wealth of technologies and innovations, including potential therapeutic drugs, new materials, methods, and devices. As important as these innovations are, they will not benefit the public unless transferred, using a variety of vehicles...

Marianne “Mimi” Fleury, president and co-founder of the Community of Concern of North Bethesda, Md., today received the Senator Harold Hughes Memorial Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. NIAAA Acting Director Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D., announced her selection during the 132nd meeting of the National Advisory Council on...

Geoffrey K. Mumford, Ph.D., Associate Executive Director for Government Relations in the Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association (APA), received the Senator Harold Hughes Memorial Award today from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. NIAAA Director George F. Koob, Ph.D., announced the Institute’s selection during the 151st meeting of...

The Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research (DEPR) promotes and supports applied, translational, and methodological research on the epidemiology and prevention of hazardous alcohol consumption and related behaviors, alcohol use disorder, alcohol-related mortality and morbidity, and other alcohol-related problems and consequences. DEPR advances its mission by: identifying scientific opportunities and gaps in current knowledge; setting research priorities; stimulating and supporting...

A study reported in the November 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (Volume 284, Number 18) shows that communities that undertake comprehensive prevention strategies can effectively reduce alcohol-related traffic crashes and injuries from crashes and assaults. Relative to matched comparison sites, intervention communities (two in California and one in South Carolina) experienced marked reductions in alcohol-related...

2023 PUBLIC MEETING OF THE INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ICCFASD) Friday, April 17, 2023 Special Panel PART I: WHAT IS WORKING IN YOUR COMMUNITY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM LIVED EXPERIENCES Moderator: Jan Lutke Jan Lutke was the co-chair of the former National Advisory Committee on FASD to Health Canada, Government of Canada, for five years, appointed by...

The NIH Institute on Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) has issued a national challenge to design a wearable or discreet device to measure blood alcohol levels. Tonight’s discussion examines the history and current research on alcohol consumption and the promise of new technology. First used by the criminal justice system to enforce drunk driving laws, alcohol monitoring technology now has...

The NIAAA Core Resource on Alcohol was developed with the help of more than 70 contributors, including physicians, clinical psychologists, and basic and clinical alcohol researchers, who served as writers for full articles, content contributors to subsections, reviewers, and editorial staff. These contributors included both experts external to NIAAA as well as NIAAA staff. External Writers and Content Contributors Douglas...

Middle school students from the Washington, D.C., area will become brain scientists for a day when they visit the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland, on March 16 and 17, 2016. Scientists from the National Institutes of Health will be at the museum to lead students through hands-on activities that explore the structure and function of...

NIAAA supports research on the causes, prevention, control, and treatment of the major health problems associated with alcohol use. Through its extramural research programs, NIAAA funds a wide range of basic and applied research to develop new and/or improved technologies and approaches for increasing the effectiveness of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. NIAAA also is concerned with strengthening research dissemination, scientific...

Un 75 por ciento informa no recibir ningún tipo de tratamiento [ Leer la pagina en inglés. Read this page in English. ] Una encuesta entre adultos estadounidenses reveló que el trastorno por consumo de drogas es frecuente, concurre con una variedad de trastornos de salud mental y a menudo no se trata. El estudio, financiado por el Instituto Nacional...

George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Membership in the NAM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to those...

Thursday, May 9, 2024, 10:00AM to 4:30PM EDT National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 6700B Rockledge Drive First Floor Conference Center, Rockville, Maryland 20817 On-site free validated parking is available for the meeting participants at 6700 Rockledge Drive parking garage immediately behind the building 6700A and 6700B. Bring your parking ticket to the meeting for validation. NIH VideoCasting: https://videocast.nih.gov...

The NIH Workshop on Psychedelics as Therapeutics was conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The designation “Psychedelics” has meant different things since first coined in 1957. In this workshop we considered classical psychedelics (serotonergic agonists), dissociative anesthetics and entactogens and used “psychedelic’ in...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) will host the annual 2023 NIDA-NIAAA Frontiers in Addiction Research Mini-Convention as as a 2-day virtual meeting on November 7-8, 2023. The annual NIDA-NIAAA Mini-Convention provides a forum for presentations and discussions of current topics in neuroscience and addiction research. Topics of significant...

What: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announces that Edith V. Sullivan, Ph.D., will deliver the 18 th annual Mark Keller Honorary Lecture. The title of her presentation is “Functional Compromise and Compensation in Alcoholism: Neuropsychology Meets Neuroimaging.” Who: Dr. Sullivan is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at...

College students who post references to getting drunk, blacking out, or other aspects of dangerous drinking on social networking sites are more likely to have clinically significant alcohol problems than students who do not post such references, according to a study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. Researchers...