National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

November 8, 2013, 8:30am – 5:30 pm Room 24, San Diego Convention Center 8:30 am - Welcome / Opening Remarks Kenneth Warren, Ph.D. Acting Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Antonio Noronha, Ph.D., Director, Division of Neuroscience and Behavior, NIAAA 8:40 am - Overview on brain pathways to recovery from alcohol dependence Changhai Cui, Ph.D., Program Director, Division...

Washington, D.C. Drs. Henri Begleiter and Bernice Porjesz, Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, and colleagues in the six-university Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) identify in the May Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology (Volume 108, Number 3) chromosomal regions that may underlie the functional organization of human neuroelectric activity, including the...

Principal investigator Cheryl L. Perry, Ph.D., co-principal investigator Carolyn L. Williams, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Minnesota report in the July 18 American Journal of Public Health initial findings from Project Northland , a 3-year test in 24 Minnesota school districts of combined classroom and community interventions to prevent alcohol use by young adolescents. The researchers found that...

Research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has identified brain patterns in humans that appear to underlie “resilient coping,” the healthy emotional and behavioral responses to stress that help some people handle stressful situations better than others. People encounter stressful situations and stimuli everywhere, every day, and studies have shown that long-term stress can contribute to a broad...

May 6, 2015

April is Alcohol Awareness Month – a good time to learn more about how alcohol use impacts your health and examine your own drinking habits. Bring your health-related questions and come chat with an NIAAA expert. Date: Tuesday, April 28, at 1 p.m. ET. Hashtag: #NIAAAchat

Friday, May 31, 2019, 11:00 am EDT

You are invited to join the Interagency Work Group on Drinking and Drug Use in Women and Girls for a webinar titled: “Women and Alcohol: A Call to Action” on Friday, May 31, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST. Join WebEx Meeting: https://nih.webex.com/nih 1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada) Meeting Number (access code) 624-477-048 Meeting Password: NIAAA

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) targets the body’s immune system and often leads to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The U.S. CDC reported that in 2015, 39,513 people were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States; more than 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV, and 1 in 8 of them don’t know it. Scientists have learned...

Friday, May 8, 2020, 2:30 pm EDT

Webinar: "An Introduction to Online Human Research Strategies: Recruitment, Management, and Intervention” Friday, May 8, 2020 2:30 pm –3:30 pm Eastern Speakers: Dr. Steven Ondersma, Dr. Karen Ingersoll, and Dr. Jaimee Heffner will address the following: This webinar is designed for investigators interested in moving some or all of their research programs online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic...

La llegada de los estudiantes al campus universitario en otoño es, generalmente, el comienzo de nuevas experiencias, nuevas amistades y de momentos que se recordarán toda la vida. Desafortunadamente para muchos, también es una época de consumo nocivo de alcohol y consumo por parte de menores de edad, así como de lidiar con sus consecuencias, desde el vandalismo, las agresiones...

September 18, 2014

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...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM AGENDA 158th Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM Thursday, September 9, 2021 NIH VIDEOCAST 12:15 PM to 5:15 PM: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 12:15 CALL TO ORDER AND INTRODUCTIONS Dr. George Koob 12:30 DIRECTOR'S REPORT Dr. George Koob...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM AGENDA 152nd Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM Thursday, September 12, 2019 6700 B Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817 Webcast Open Session September 12, 2019 09:30 AM - 3:00 PM: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Time Activities Presenters 09:30...

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM 145th Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM May 2, ​2017 The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) convened for its 145th meeting at 10:17 a.m. on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, at NIAAA headquarters in Rockville...

Fri, 05/12/2023 - 12:00

This article was first published in NIAAA Spectrum Volume 15, Issue 2. Decades of research have firmly established the importance of asking primary care patients about their alcohol use, providing brief advice about reducing alcohol misuse, and referring them to appropriate alcohol treatments, as necessary. Studies consistently find that these practices, known collectively as alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral...

Prevalencia del consumo de alcohol Prevalencia del consumo de alcohol en el último mes Según la Encuesta Nacional sobre la Salud y el Consumo de Drogas (NSDUH, por su sigla en inglés) de 2022, un total de 17.5 millones de adultos jóvenes de 18 a 25 años (el 50.2% en este grupo de edad) informaron que consumieron alcohol en el...

Consumir alcohol forma parte, sin duda, de la cultura estadounidense al igual que las conversaciones entre padres e hijos sobre sus riesgos. El alcohol afecta a las personas de distintas maneras en las diferentes etapas de la vida. En el caso de los niños y adolescentes, el alcohol puede interferir con el desarrollo normal del cerebro. Los diferentes efectos del...

October 28, 2019

The latest article from Alcohol Research Current Reviews explores interactions between stress and alcohol. Some people drink alcohol for stress relief, but alcohol can actually activate stress systems in the brain, acting as a stressor itself. This review article describes 1) the effects of stress on alcohol drinking and 2) how alcohol interacts with biological stress systems. Findings from animal...

A family-based prevention program designed to help adolescents avoid substance use and other risky behavior proved especially effective for a group of young teens with a genetic risk factor contributing toward such behavior, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), today kicked off a major collaborative study that will investigate ways to screen, identify, and treat patients in hospital emergency departments for alcohol problems. Academic emergency medical departments (EDs) at 14 institutions throughout the U.S. will participate in the study, the...

February 10, 2017

The most recent issue of the NIAAA Spectrum is now available online at www.spectrum.niaaa.nih.gov . The current issue features the following: NIAAA Plays Integral Role in First Surgeon General’s Report on Addiction A Second Challenge Competition for the Wearable Alcohol Biosensor NIAAA Featured in HBO Documentary Risky Drinking NIAAA Lab Chief Dr. Andrew Holmes Wins Award for Outstanding Research New...