National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

NEW! Posted on May 2, 2024 Surveillance Report #121 [ PDF ]: Apparent Per Capita Alcohol Consumption: National, State, and Regional Trends, 1977–2022 (Slater, Megan E.; Alpert, Hillel R.) April 2024 Examines trends in apparent alcohol consumption in the United States. Findings are based on alcoholic beverage sales data, collected from the States or the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association...

Risks of using alcohol to relieve your pain: mixing alcohol and pain medicines can be harmful, analgesic doses of alcohol exceed moderate drinking guidelines and chronic alcohol drinking makes pain worse.

Data Access Policy, Application and Agreement NIAAA Protocol NCIG 003: A Phase 2, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial to Assess the Efficacy of Varenicline Tartrate for Alcohol Dependence Description This double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of varenicline tartrate for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Study Details Sponsor: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s...

Benjamin Xu, Ph.D., Division of Neuroscience and Behavior Purpose The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) seeks to continue the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA), a nation-wide consortium of five research project sites to study the impact of alcohol drinking on brain structure and function during adolescence and into early adulthood. Background Adolescent or...

Andras Orosz, Ph.D. with contributions from: Changhai Cui, Ph.D., I-Jen Castle, Ph.D., and Deidra Roach, M.D. Alcohol and Aging (R01, R21; New concept addressing a priority area of the 2017-2021 NIAAA Strategic Plan) Purpose The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to promote research to improve our understanding of the effects of alcohol consumption on aging across...

March 1, 2024

Underage drinking is a significant public health problem in the United States. As part of its efforts to raise awareness of and combat underage drinking, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has launched NIAAA for Middle School and NIAAA for Teens . “Early initiation of alcohol consumption increases the risk of a wide range of harmful consequences...

Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways and can affect the way the brain looks and works. Alcohol makes it harder for the brain areas controlling balance, memory, speech, and judgment to do their jobs, resulting in a higher likelihood of injuries and other negative outcomes. Long-term heavy drinking causes alterations in the neurons, such as reductions in their size...

Nearly 32 million adults in the United States (13 percent of the U.S. population aged 18 and older) consumed more than twice the number of drinks considered binge drinking on at least one occasion, according to a 2013 survey that asked about past-year drinking. This higher level of drinking is associated with increased health and safety risks. A report of...

Alcohol Epidemiologic Data Reference Manuals are statistical compendia of alcohol-related data useful to researchers and others interested in alcohol problems. PDF files are available for all the manuals; and machine-readable data files are available for manual volumes 1, 3, and 5 from the links provided below on this page. Hard copies are available for NIH Publication No. 02-4997 and manual...

With small, incremental steps, you can create and support a better system of care for your patients with alcohol-related problems.

Tue, 10/16/2012 - 12:00

Tue, 10/16/2012 - 12:00

Time course and metabolism are important factors According to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) scientists, existing epidemiologic evidence supporting the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk needs further study. “Understanding how and when alcohol consumption increases breast cancer risk is important for a full understanding of how moderate alcohol drinking impacts women’s overall health,”...

Here are some recommendations for reducing alcohol-related stigma How certain words are used to describe alcohol-related problems and the people who are affected by them perpetuate stigma. Stigma is a significant barrier in many people’s willingness to seek help for alcohol problems and can affect how they are treated in all aspects of life, including availability and quality of care...

Thursday, July 30, 2020, 10:30 am EDT

At the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) Mid-Year Training Institute, NIAAA will present a session "Preventing underage and young adult drinking and related problems." The session will focus on research findings regarding policy and other interventions addressing underage and young adult drinking and related alcohol problems. Researchers will examine recent data and trends in underage drinking. In addition, findings...

Prevalence of Lifetime Drinking People Ages 12 and Older According to the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 221.3 million people ages 12 and older (78.5% in this age group) reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime. 1,2 This includes: 110.2 million males ages 12 and older (79.7% in this age group) 1,2...

Fri, 03/03/2023 - 12:00

This article was first published in NIAAA Spectrum Volume 15, Issue 1. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a heterogeneous disorder, meaning individuals with AUD differ in their clinical symptoms and in the biological and psychological factors that contribute to their disorder. A better understanding of individual differences in AUD could inform the development of tailored treatment approaches to increase treatment...

Physicians often fail to ask high school-aged patients about alcohol use and to advise young people to reduce or stop drinking, according to a study led by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. In a random survey of more than 2,500 10th grade students with an average age of 16...

Mon, 05/22/2023 - 12:00

This article was first published in NIAAA Spectrum Volume 15, Issue 2. Using alcohol to cope with social anxiety is associated with increased substance use and more consequences among young adults, according to a study by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)-supported researchers. The findings also suggest that young adults who drink to cope with social anxiety experience...

PREAMBLE Research involving the administration of alcohol to human research participants is a critical experimental approach to address fundamental questions on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic responses to alcohol and underlying biobehavioral mechanisms, as well as the etiology, treatment, and prevention of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Furthermore, in the context of early medication development, alcohol administration studies are important to investigate...

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, also known as FASD, is a term that refers to the broad range of lifelong birth defects and neurodevelopmental abnormalities that occur as a result of prenatal alcohol exposure.

NIH-supported study finds coordinated efforts limit the impact of high-risk drinking Coordinated strategies that address alcohol availability, alcohol policy enforcement and drinking norms can help colleges and their communities protect students from the harms of high-risk drinking, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health. In the Study to Prevent Alcohol Related Consequences (SPARC), researchers found...