National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Announces Content on the Global Online Learning Platform Kahoot!
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has partnered with the global online learning platform Kahoot! to provide free interactive quizzes and games for educators and learners. NIH’s Kahoot! page has grown to feature content on teen depression, superbugs, health literacy, lung health, and other health topics.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) recently joined the NIH Kahoot! site with a quiz about how alcohol affects a teen’s health. Now high schoolers, at home or in the classroom, can learn how alcohol affects the teen brain and body by taking NIAAA’s Kahoot! quiz about underage drinking. The quiz is designed to help students understand the negative health consequences associated with drinking, the signs of an alcohol problem, and how teens can find support for friends, family, or themselves.
The Kahoot! quiz is just one of a number of resources NIAAA has developed to help students, educators, and parents learn about underage drinking. These resources are all available via NIAAA’s Underage Drinking landing page for easy, one-stop access and include:
- Facts About Teen Drinking website
- NIAAA for Middle School online resource (see the Winter 2024 Spectrum issue to learn more)
- Alcohol and Your Brain virtual reality experience (see the Fall 2023 Spectrum issue to learn more)
- Short Takes with NIAAA videos: How Does Alcohol Affect the Adolescent Brain? and What Are the Dangers of Underage Drinking?
In this Issue
Digital Health Technology Shows Promise for Efforts To Address Drinking Among Youth
Underage drinking and alcohol misuse by young adults are serious public health concerns in the United States. The 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) found that 15% of people ages 12 to 20 and 50% of people ages 18 to 25 reported drinking alcohol in the past month, with 8.2% of 12- to 20-year-olds and 29.5% of 18- to 25-year-olds reporting binge drinking in the past month.1,2 Surveys also consistently find that young people are among the biggest users of the internet and mobile devices.
Scientists Find Brain Pathways for Threat Response in Mice
Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) have identified brain pathways that may coordinate an animal’s response to potentially traumatic situations. Understanding where and how neural circuits mediate such functions—and how they could malfunction—may provide clues about their role in trauma-related and stress-related psychiatric disorders in people. A report of this NIAAA research was published in the journal Nature.
Alcohol Research: Current Reviews Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Alcohol Research: Current Reviews (ARCR). ARCR is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at the National Institutes of Health. Open-access journals are available without barriers such as fees.
Five Questions With Paule V. Joseph, CRNP, Ph.D.
Acting Chief of the Section of Sensory Science and Metabolism, Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Co-Director of the National Taste and Smell Center.