National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)—part of the National Institutes of Health, the Nation’s medical research agency— funds research on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) with projects on preventing prenatal alcohol exposure, treating women with alcohol use disorder, improving the diagnosis of FASD, establishing more precise prevalence estimates of FASD in the United States, increasing our understanding...

NIAAA seeks innovative designs that use alternatives to measuring BAC through sweat The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health, is once again challenging the biotech community to design a wearable device capable of measuring blood alcohol in near real-time. The ideal device would be capable of measuring alcohol concentration in the blood...

Wernicke-Korsakoff (WK) syndrome is a serious brain condition that is usually, but not exclusively, associated with chronic alcohol misuse and severe alcohol use disorder (AUD).

Thursday, October 20, 2022, 8:00 am EDT to Friday, October 21, 2022, 5:00 pm EDT

The 2022 National Conference on Alcohol and Other Substance Use in Women and Girls: Advances in Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery will be held virtually from Thursday, October 20, through Friday, October 21, 2022. Registration: Please use the following link to register for the conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/367873990007 Please register by close of business on Wednesday, October 19, 2022. This conference is FREE...

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Minutes of the Third Joint Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, and National Cancer Advisory Board February 4, 2015 Rockville, Maryland Members of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Advisory Council on Drug...

Chronic alcohol exposure leads to brain adaptations that shift behavior control away from an area of the brain involved in complex decision-making and toward a region associated with habit formation, according to a new study conducted in mice by scientists at the National Institutes of Health. The finding provides a biological mechanism that helps to explain compulsive alcohol use and...

Health care professionals at more than 1200 sites stand ready to educate the public about signs and symptoms of alcohol problems during the third annual National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD) on Thursday, April 5, 2001. Individuals concerned about their drinking or that of another may access free, confidential screening and research-based alcohol information at college and community health and counseling...

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...

April 23-24, 1998 • Ramada Inn • Bethesda, Maryland Abstracts Meta-Analysis of Validated Cessation in Randomized Controlled Trials Patricia Dolan Mullen, Dr.P.H. From the Center for Health Promotion Research and Development, University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas Of more than 30 reports of findings from evaluations of pregnancy smoking cessation interventions (PSC) in "developed" countries, 16 were...

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...

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

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...