Abstract

OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 03 May 2011Sec. Addictive Disorders https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00002

Highlights

  • New funds will be needed, even in the current difficult national economic climate, to coalesce the infrastructure of National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and incorporate addiction-related research currently conducted by other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes

  • New funds will be needed, even in the current difficult national economic climate, to coalesce the infrastructure of NIAAA and NIDA and incorporate addiction-related research currently conducted by other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes

  • The NIH Director could determine a specific percentage of resources from each institute to be committed for collaborative research agendas modeled on the same governance and operational structures currently used by the Neuroscience Blueprint and the Basic Behavioral Research Operations Network

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Summary

Introduction

New funds will be needed, even in the current difficult national economic climate, to coalesce the infrastructure of NIAAA and NIDA and incorporate addiction-related research currently conducted by other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes. The new institute would require an enormous amount of cooperation from other institutes as the portfolios of research in the areas of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse are transferred to it.

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