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.

[2] The NIAAA publishes the academic journal Alcohol Research: Current Reviews.

Past directors from 1972–present[3] 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.

[4] NIAAA provides leadership in the national effort to reduce alcohol-related problems by: Extramural research is research conducted by organizations outside the NIH with NIH support through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements.

[5] Clinical research comprises more than 30 percent of NIAAA’s extramural research and includes programs in: 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.