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Key Takeaways

• Artificial intelligence (AI) holds significant potential for improving recruitment, retention, and data analysis in alcohol research using human participants.
• AI may also improve the effectiveness and accessibility of evidence-based treatments for alcohol use disorder (AUD).
• The empirical literature examining ways in which AI can be implemented in AUD treatment and alcohol research...

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• Recent clinical evidence integrated with the lived experiences of adolescents and adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) highlights the range of physical health challenges people can experience.
• Recent research suggests that comorbid physical health conditions may be associated with PAE across the life span for individuals with FASD. These conditions include metabolic...

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• Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) can result in behavioral and physiological symptoms that develop acutely and persist for years after the initial injury, including increased hazardous alcohol use.
• Neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, neuroendocrine alterations, aberrant dopamine signaling, and deficits in executive function and reward-processing may contribute to the mechanisms by...

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• Older adults born from 1924 to 1945 (The Silent Generation) had strong responses to primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohol prevention interventions, particularly those that involved a physician (i.e., a physician delivered the intervention or followed up regarding alcohol use), with multiple contacts over time, and across decades of life. However, Baby Boomers did not respond as...

Key Takeaways

• The population of people with HIV (PWH) is rapidly aging and faces unique physical and mental health challenges.
• Alcohol misuse (i.e., either drinking above recommended limits or presence of alcohol use disorder) is prevalent among older PWH and poses substantial risks to health.
• Greater alcohol use is associated with higher risk of frailty, fractures, and falls among older PWH...

NIAAA/NIH Staff

Pamela Wernett, Ph.D., P.M.P.
Editor in Chief

Pamela joined ARCR in 2018 as an Associate Editor and advanced to Editor in Chief for the journal in 2021. Pamela also serves as a Senior Health Science Policy Analyst within NIAAA’s Science Policy Branch, Office of Science Policy and Communications, a position she has held since 2018. In this role, she supports various mission-critical...

Alcohol Research: Current Reviews (ARCR) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at the National Institutes of Health. As of 2020, ARCR has published articles on a continuous, rolling basis, comprising one virtual issue per yearly volume.

Articles published in ARCR are available online with no subscription or pay-per-view...

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Unless otherwise noted, all articles published in ARCR are in the public domain. This means that such an article is owned by the public at large and is not subject to any known copyright restrictions.

PDF copies of published articles can be freely shared, distributed, and reused in new work without permission from either ARCR or the authors. This also applies to authors...

January 25, 2024

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Alcohol Research: Current Reviews (ARCR), an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at the National Institutes of Health.

Key Takeaways

• The results of this scoping review confirm strong positive links between posting alcohol-related content (ARC) and drinking and alcohol-related problems.
• The findings in this review underscore the need for operationalization and standardized measures related to ARC.
• The authors propose a theoretical model—the Dual-Feedback Loop Drinking and ARC Model—that may serve as a blueprint for...