Alcohol Awareness Month - View the Archived Twitter Chat
In honor of Alcohol Awareness Month, NIAAA hosted a chat with the American Society of Addiction Medicine on April 7.
The focus was to address the science of addiction, current evidence-based approaches for treating alcohol use disorder, and resources for health professionals.
(Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - April 12, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
ICCFASD Spring 2016 Public Meeting April 14
What: Meeting of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD)
Where: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 5635 Fishers Lane, Terrace Level Conference Center, Rockville, Maryland 20852
When: The Spring meeting will take place on Thursday from 8:30 am – 4 pm and is open to the public.
(Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - April 12, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
Study supports single-question alcohol screen for adolescents
Findings also endorse use of NIAAA youth screening guide (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - April 6, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
Today: Join NIAAA and ASAM for a Twitter Chat on Alcohol Awareness Month
In honor of Alcohol Awareness Month, NIAAA will be hosting a chat with the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
(Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - April 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
Join us April 7: NIAAA and ASAM Will Host a Twitter Chat on Alcohol Awareness Month
In honor of Alcohol Awareness Month, NIAAA will be hosting a chat with the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
(Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - April 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
RSA Honors CPN Chief Lorenzo Leggio
The Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) has announced that Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., will receive the 2016 Early Career Investigator Award. Dr. Leggio is Chief of the Section on Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology (CPN), a joint laboratory of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - March 23, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
Students Explore the Brain with NIH Scientists - NIH celebrates Brain Awareness Week 2016
Middle school students from the Washington, D.C., area will become brain scientists for a day when they visit the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland, on March 16 and 17, 2016. Scientists from the National Institutes of Health will be at the museum to lead students through hands-on activities that explore the structure and function of the brain, and how alcohol and drugs can affect brain health. (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - March 11, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
New Technology Boosts Clinical Study Design for Alcohol Medications Team
To streamline elements of its clinical trials program, the NIAAA Clinical Investigations Group (NCIG) recently turned to a technological innovation called Take Control. A sophisticated computer-based alcohol intervention, Take Control proved effective in a number of pilot tests with NCIG’s drug development trials. (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - March 4, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: vvan Source Type: news
Marijuana use disorder is common and often untreated
Survey shows marijuana use disorder linked to substance use/mental disorders and disability (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - March 4, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
FAQ on Joint NIDA-NIAAA T32 review
NIAAA and NIDA to have Institutional NRSA Applications Reviewed by a Common Panel of Experts beginning in 2016 (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - March 2, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
Drinking and Pregnancy: A Review of Attitudes through History
It is now well accepted in pediatrics and obstetrics that prenatal alcohol is a teratogenic agent and the primary causative factor underlying fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), although for the majority of the 20th century that knowledge was either unknown or ignored. (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - February 16, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
Criminal justice alcohol program linked to decreased mortality
Deaths dropped by 4.2 percent community-wide over six years
A criminal justice program that requires offenders convicted of alcohol-related offenses to stop drinking and submit to frequent alcohol testing with swift, certain, and modest sanctions for a violation was linked to a significant reduction in county-level mortality rates in South Dakota. These results came from a study funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - February 10, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
CRAN Blog: Saving a “Lost Generation” - The Need to Prevent Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Midlife
We have long expected to see increasing substance use in middle and later life with the aging of baby boomers—a demographic that traditionally had a more relaxed attitude to substance use. A recent study funded by the National Institute on Aging reveals the unexpected enormity of the problem and its disastrous consequences for a generation of Americans. (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - February 8, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
Review article reinforces support for brain disease model of addiction
The concept of addiction as a brain disease is still being questioned. Yet, an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine by NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow, NIAAA Director Dr. George Koob, and Dr. A. Thomas McLellan, co-founder and Chair of the Board of the Treatment Research Institute, further enforces this concept. The review article summarizes recent scientific advances in the neurobiology of addiction.... (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - February 5, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
CDC Report: More than 3 million US women at risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancy
An estimated 3.3 million women between the ages of 15 and 44 years are at risk of exposing their developing baby to alcohol because they are drinking, sexually active, and not using birth control to prevent pregnancy, according to the latest CDC Vital Signs report released today. The report also found that 3 in 4 women who want to get pregnant as soon as possible do not stop drinking alcohol when they stop using birth control. (Source: NIAAA News)
Source: NIAAA News - February 2, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: groa Source Type: news
