The decision by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a new institute
organized around the science of addiction, called the National Institute on Substance
Use and Addiction Disorders (NISUAD), continues to elicit considerable debate within
the scientific and public advocacy communities. NISUAD would be created largely from
the portfolios of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), both of which would cease to exist. However,
as part of this reorganization, a major focus of current discussion, and ongoing controversy,
is what pieces of these two institutes should be transferred to other institutes/centers
of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and what from these other institutes/centers
should be housed within NISUAD?
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Publication history
Published online: June 11, 2012
Accepted:
May 15,
2012
Received:
April 24,
2012
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© 2012 Society of Biological Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
