Now on Youtube: "The Impact of Alcoholism on Family Members and Friends -- Al-Anon Interviews Dr. George Koob, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism" Watch online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMp1C1PJMU .
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
See the latest issue of our webzine at www.spectrum.niaaa.nih.gov -- featuring articles on NIAAA’s National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) study and NIH’s multi-Institute Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Also see five questions with Trish Powell, Ph.D., Associate Director for Scientific Initiatives at NIAAA, binge drinking by the numbers, a closer look at alcohol monitoring technology...
Open Session of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. AGENDA Note: subject to change.
Research on Promising Medications (not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA]) to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) Varenicline (Chantix®) , a medication approved for smoking cessation, was found in a recent 200-patient clinical trial conducted by NIAAA’s Clinical Investigations Group (NCIG) to reduce alcohol consumption and craving among people who are alcohol-dependent. Varenicline may work by partially...
Open Session of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. View the Agenda Hours subject to change.
Open Session of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. View the Agenda . Agenda subject to change; a final agenda will be posted closer to the date of the event.
The following are the NIAAA divisions that support extramural basic and clinical research: Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research Director: Dr. Ralph Hingson 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...
WHAT: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, announces that Craig J. McClain, M.D. will deliver the 19th Annual Mark Keller Honorary Lecture. Dr. McClain is an internationally distinguished clinician and scientist in the fields of gastroenterology, alcohol abuse, nutrition, cytokine research, and hepatic drug metabolism. The title of his talk...
NIH announces 11 awards funded across three Institutes More than $11 million over three years will be used to support research exploring the use of social media to advance the scientific understanding, prevention, and treatment of substance use and addiction. The awards are funded through the Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH (CRAN), an NIH consortium involving the National Institute...