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Just four years after the establishment of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the Institute publishes its first pilot issue of the journal, then named Alcohol Health and Research World, with a “newsy, magazine-type focus.” In 1976, the first official quarterly issue (Volume 1, Number 1) is then published.
