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August 08, 2019
A new study led by researchers at the National Institute and Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), identifies regions of the rat genome that are associated with a behavior that is highly predictive of...
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August 05, 2019
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) notes with sadness the passing of Robert E. Taylor, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Taylor had a distinguished career as the Dean of the College of Medicine, Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, and...
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July 12, 2019
Dr. Paule V. Joseph has been selected as a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar at the National Insitutes of Health (NIH). This highly competitive program...
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July 09, 2019
What: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, announces that Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D., will deliver the 11th Annual Jack Mendelson Honorary Lecture. The title of...
Research News
June 19, 2019
In clinical trials for alcohol use disorder (AUD), abstinence and no heavy drinking days are currently the only end points approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. However, many individuals who do not achieve these end points may still...
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June 06, 2019
Alcohol is involved in nearly half of all liver disease deaths in the United States each year. Alcohol-associated liver disease (AALD) now replaces hepatitis C viral infection as the lead cause of liver transplantation due to chronic liver disease...
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May 22, 2019
The Director’s Report to the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is now available online...
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May 17, 2019
New clinical research supported by the National Institutes of Health shows that increasing the intensity of treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) over time improves alcohol-related outcomes among people with HIV. This stepped approach to AUD...
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May 14, 2019
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...
Research News
May 13, 2019
A new study finds that several state-level policies targeting alcohol and drug use during pregnancy lead to greater numbers of low birthweight and preterm births, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars more in public health spending each year...