National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Most people with AUD can and do recover, and their individual paths to recovery vary widely. By highlighting the likelihood of recovery, you may encourage more patients with AUD to accept treatment or to reduce their drinking with or without treatment.

May 5, 2021

The NIAAA announces the release of genetic data collected from individuals who participated in NIAAA’s National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III (NESARC-III), the largest study ever conducted on alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD), and its co-occurrence with drug use, substance use disorders (SUD), and related psychiatric conditions. The NESARC-III is a large nationally representative epidemiologic survey...

Thursday, September 8, 2022, 12:15 pm EDT to Thursday, September 8, 2022, 5:00 pm EDT

September 8, 2022 Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. 6700 B - ABC ROCKLEDGE DRIVE, BETHESDA MD*, NIH Videocast - visit https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=45783 For additional information, see the full meeting agenda . *The meeting will be open to the public, with attendance limited to space available. Individuals who plan to attend in person should notify Dr...

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Summary of the 124th Meeting June 9-10, 2010 The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) convened for its 124th meeting at 5:30 p.m. on June 9, 2010, at the Fishers Lane Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland, in closed session for a review of grant applications, review of Merit Award extensions, and Merit Award nominations. Dr. Abraham Bautista...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE AGENDA FIFTH JOINT MEETING (FOURTH CRAN) OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM, NATIONAL CANCER ADVISORY BOARD, AND THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON DRUG ABUSE WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017 Webcast: https://videocast.nih.gov/live.asp?live=21960 OPEN...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM AGENDA 140 th Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM September 17, 2015 Thursday, 10:15 AM-4:00 PM, Fishers Lane, Terrace Conference Rooms, Rockville MD 20852 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 10:15 CALL TO ORDER AND INTRODUCTIONS Dr. George Koob 10:30...

Takeaways You can maximize patient choice and outcomes by offering a full menu of evidence-based treatment options. Approaches for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD) include behavioral health treatments, FDA-approved AUD medications, and mutual support groups, or a combination of any of these. Behavioral health treatments for AUD can bring lasting positive change. Steer patients in need of referral for behavioral...

The effectiveness of an experimental treatment for alcoholism depends on the genetic makeup of individuals who receive it, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. A report of the findings appears online in the American Journal of Psychiatry. “This study represents an important milestone...

November 10, 2021

November is Native American Heritage Month. In a recent guest blog for the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities’ NIMHD Insights , George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), discussed NIAAA-supported research demonstrating the importance of community-based interventions in preventing underage drinking among American Indian and Alaska Native youth. Supporting...

September 20, 2023

NIAAA shares the sad news that Sally M. Anderson, Ph.D., passed away on September 14, 2023. For more than two decades, Dr. Anderson was integral to the leadership of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD). NIAAA Director Dr. George F. Koob said, “Sally made major and seminal contributions to our efforts in FASD. Our thoughts go...

Washington, D.C. Theodore Reich, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and colleagues at that university and others in the NIAAA-supported Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) report in this month's Neuropsychiatric Genetics (Volume 81, Number 3) highly suggestive evidence on chromosomes 1 and 7 and more modest evidence on chromosome 2 for linkage...

Scientists have identified an area within the brain’s frontal cortex that may coordinate an animal’s response to potentially traumatic situations. Understanding where and how neural circuits involving the frontal cortex regulate such functions, and how such circuits could malfunction, may provide insight about their role in trauma-related and stress-related psychiatric disorders in people. The study, led by scientists at the...

NIAAA issued this notice NOT-AA-17-002 ( https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AA-17-002.html ) to communicate the policy regarding grant applications seeking to identify common variants conferring genetic risks for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and related phenotypes. The policy is based on recommendations from the Genetics and Genomics Advisory Meeting NIAAA convened on October 26, 2016. The Advisory Panel determined that Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) are...

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July 20, 2021

The ICCFASD and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), sponsor and chair of ICCFASD, invite input on the draft outline of the 2022-2026 ICCFASD strategic plan from diverse stakeholders, including scientific experts, health care providers, patients and family members, advocacy groups, other federal agencies, and non-governmental scientific, professional, and healthcare organizations. Organizations are encouraged to submit a...

About the Underage Drinking Research Initiative The Underage Drinking Research Initiative (UDRI) is a key program of NIAAA. The goal of this initiative is to better understand the factors that compel youth to begin drinking, continue drinking, and progress to harmful use, abuse, and dependence. We seek to understand and address underage drinking within the context of overall development, and...

April 23-24, 1998 • Ramada Inn • Bethesda, Maryland Abstracts Substance Abuse in Pregnant Women Richard S. Schottenfeld, M.D. From the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut The objective of this program was to evaluate the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine use during pregnancy in an urban hospital prenatal clinic...

LNG - Office of the Chief The Section of Human Neurogenetics The major paradigm of LNG is the study of inter-individual variation and its relation to behavior. The aim is to relate genotype to complex behavioral phenotypes, with the goal of identifying vulnerability and protective alleles responsible for the substantial heritability of alcoholism. To accomplish this, LNG studies intermediate phenotypes...

An estimated 30.8 million American adults (14.8 percent) meet standard diagnostic criteria for at least one personality disorder as defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), according to the results of the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) reported in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical...