The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), as part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts biomedical and behavioural research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism 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.
Past directors Past directors from 1972–present
PortraitDirectorTook officeLeft office1Morris E. Chafetz1972September 1, 19752Ernest NobleFebruary 1976April 1978actingLoran ArcherApril 1978April 19793John R. DeLucaMay 1979October 1981actingLoran ArcherNovember 1981July 1982actingWilliam E. MayerAugust 1982July 19834Robert G. NivenAugust 1983December 1985actingLoran ArcherJanuary 1986October 19865Enoch GordisNovember 1986January 2002actingRaynard S. KingtonJanuary 2002November 20026Ting-Kai LiNovember 2002October 2008actingKenneth R. WarrenNovember 2008January 20147George KoobJanuary 27, 2014Present
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 Project MATCH, an initialism for: Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity
References
External links
NIAAA's Alcohol Treatment Locator Alcohol Research: Current Reviews – The Journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism