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Statement by Enoch Gordis, M.D., Director National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism National Institutes of Health Department of Health and Human Services March 2, 1999 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: The FY 2000 budget request for NIAAA is $248.9 million, excluding AIDS, an increase of $5.8 million or 2.4 percent over the current FY 1999 amount. Including...
Conference Organizers: Justice Issues Work Group of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD) ►View the Program [PDF, 1.8 mb] ►Watch videocast sessions: • What are FASD: A Primer for the Legal Community (Part one of four). http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=12194&bhcp=1 • FASD and Juvenile/Criminal Law (Part two of four). http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=12195&bhcp=1 • FASD and Child/Family Law (Part three of four)...
A. Legislation , Budget, and Policy Budget Update FY 2010 In FY 2010, the NIAAA obligated $462.1 million in appropriated money. As part of the NIH Director’s one-percent transfer authority and consistent with FY 2009 action, $704 thousand was transferred from NIAAA for the Genes and Environment Initiative (GEI). NIAAA awarded 706 research project grants (RPGs), including 189 competing awards...
CONTENTS A. Legislation, Budget, and Policy B. Director’s Activities C. NIAAA Staff and Organization D. Transdisciplinary Research Activities E. Scientific Meetings F. NIAAA Research Programs G. Multi-Media Products from NIAAA H. Outreach I. News Media Interactions J. What’s Ahead K. NIAAA Program Announcement and Request for Applications Information A. Legislation, Budget, and Policy Fiscal Year 2009 On Tuesday, September 30...
NIAAA Reports Project MATCH Main Findings Washington, D.C. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism today announced main findings from the largest and most statistically powerful clinical trial of psychotherapies ever undertaken. Designed to test whether different types of alcoholics respond differently to specific therapeutic approaches, the eight-year, multisite trial confirmed one hypothetical "match" and did not confirm ten...
Relapse to uncontrolled drinking after periods of sobriety is a defining characteristic of alcoholism and is often triggered by stress. A new study in rats reports that a specific receptor for a stress-response transmitter may play an important role in stress-induced relapse. The study, a collaboration between scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of...
NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM Summary of the 128th Meeting The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) convened for its 128th meeting at 3:00 p.m. on September 12, 2011, at Building 1, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, in closed session for a review of grant applications. The meeting recessed at 4:00 p.m. The...
Much of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biometry’s work revolves around the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). The Laboratory has already conducted the first two waves of the survey, and it is now designing the third wave and analyzing data from the first two. NESARC is based on the criteria of alcohol dependence and abuse used...
Background: Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) led by CAPT Joseph R. Hibbeln, M.D., teamed with researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Md., to analyze a sample of suicide deaths among U.S. military personnel on active duty between 2002 and 2008. The researchers compared levels of omega-3 fatty...
The effectiveness of an experimental treatment for alcoholism depends on the genetic makeup of individuals who receive it, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. A report of the findings appears online in the American Journal of Psychiatry. “This study represents an important milestone...
CONTENT: A. Legislation, Budget, and Policy B. Director’s Activities C. NIAAA Staff and Organization D. Research Priority Emphasis and Core Support Teams E. NIAAA Research Programs F. Scientific Meetings G. Outreach H. Multi-Media Products from NIAAA A. Legislation, Budget, and Policy Federal Employee Health Coverage for Substance Abuse Services In the Office of Personnel Management’s annual call for benefit and...
