The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), as part of the U.S.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the lat ...
, supports and conducts
biomedical
Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) and
behavioural research
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment. These systems can include other systems or organisms as we ...
on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of
alcoholism
Alcoholism is, broadly, any drinking of alcohol that results in significant mental or physical health problems. Because there is disagreement on the definition of the word ''alcoholism'', it is not a recognized diagnostic entity. Predomi ...
and alcohol-related problems. The NIAAA functions both as a funding agency that supports research by external research institutions and as a research institution itself, where alcohol research is carried out in‐house. It funds approximately 90% of all such research in the United States. The NIAAA publishes the academic journal ''Alcohol Research: Current Reviews''.
Mission
The mission of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge about the effects of alcohol on health and well-being, and apply that knowledge to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorder, across the lifespan.
NIAAA provides leadership in the national effort to reduce alcohol-related problems by:
*Conducting and supporting alcohol-related research in a wide range of scientific areas including genetics, neuroscience, epidemiology, prevention, and treatment.
*Coordinating and collaborating with other research institutes and Federal Programs on alcohol-related issues.
*Collaborating with international, national, state, and local institutions, organizations, agencies, and programs engaged in alcohol-related work.
*Translating and disseminating research findings to health care providers, researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Extramural research
Extramural research is research conducted by organizations outside the NIH with NIH support through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements. NIAAA’s extramural research includes both clinical and basic science research.
Clinical research comprises more than 30 percent of NIAAA’s extramural research and includes programs in:
*Prevention (
Neo-prohibitionism)
*Treatment
*Health Services
The laboratories and researchers housed within NIAAA seek to unravel the biological basis of alcohol use disorders and related problems and to develop new strategies to prevent and treat these disorders.
See also
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Project MATCH, an initialism for: Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity
References
External links
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NIAAA's Alcohol Treatment LocatorAlcohol Research: Current Reviews
- The Journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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