NIDA International News

Describes NIDA activities at the International Cannabis Research Society 2018 Symposium, including staff presentations and a lifetime achievement award for a NIDA grantee. Read more »

Reviews the successful 20-year history of publications, training, and collaborative research conducted under the direction of Flavio Pechansky, M.D., Ph.D., at the Center for Drug and Alcohol Research (CPAD), an independent center of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Hospital de Clinicas of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Read more »

Announces the NIDA International Society for Prevention Research (SPR) Poster Session, which will begin the 27th Annual SPR Annual Meeting on May 28, 2019, in San Francisco, California. Read more »

Announces new NIDA INVEST and INVEST/CTN postdoctoral fellowships for drug abuse researchers from two nations. Read more »

Reports on a July 2018 Current Opinion in Psychiatry article that assesses the implications of research conducted by former NIDA International Program fellows on U.S. efforts to address the opioid crisis and describes the impact of the NIDA International Program on international drug abuse research collaboration. Read more »

Announces a funding opportunity to support collaboration on drug abuse and addiction research between researchers in the United States and their partners in other countries. Read more »

Provides links to a book and a symposium webcast documenting global health research accomplishments supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center. Read more »

Describes international substance abuse educational events held during the 2018 National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week to provide teens with NIDA- and NIAAA-developed scientific facts about drugs and alcohol. Read more »

Pictures the Pakistani ambassador to the United States and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) officials during the ambassador’s April 2018 visit to the VCU campus, which was arranged by NIDA Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow Rabia Hanif. Read more »

Announces the 2018 recipient of the James Inciardi Award for Young Investigators, established in memory of Dr. Inciardi to provide travel support to the NIDA International Forum and College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) meetings for a researcher from the Center for Drug and Alcohol Research at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Read more »

Announces a U.S. National Institutes of Health funding opportunity to improve biomedical, behavioral or clinical research, and health care service training in the countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Read more »

Invites international substance abuse professionals to plan and host educational events during the 2018 National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week to provide teens with NIDA- and NIAAA-developed scientific facts about drugs and alcohol. Read more »

Describes a European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) award presented to a team of NIDA-supported researchers, including a former NIDA fellow, and research presentations by former NIDA fellows at the EMCDDA Second European Conference on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies, which was held October 24–26, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. Read more »

Reports on drug abuse researchers affiliated with NIDA who spoke at the International Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference, which was held October 26–29, 2017, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Read more »

Lists U.S. government and international organization speakers at a meeting for Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows interested in substance abuse. Read more »

Announces the deadline to apply for NIDA scholarships to the 2018 Dutch program, which focuses on policy models, prevention, and evidence-based treatment for addiction. Read more »

Announces a joint research program, supported by the French Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm), between a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded researcher and French colleagues who hope to define new structural, molecular, and functional synaptic substrates of the sex-specific effects of adolescent cannabis use on behavior. Read more »

Announces that a researcher from Iran is the 2017 recipient of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) International Committee Award that supports the participation of drug abuse researchers from low- and middle-income countries at the NIDA International Forum and CPDD Annual Scientific Meeting. Read more »

Describes the 2017 International Women’s and Children’s Health and Gender (InWomen’s) Group Conference, held June 16, 2017, in conjunction with the NIDA International Forum and the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Annual Scientific Meeting. Read more »

Invites international substance abuse professionals to plan and host educational events during the 2018 National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week to provide teens with NIDA- and NIAAA-developed scientific facts about drugs and alcohol. Read more »

Announces new NIDA-Inserm and INVEST postdoctoral fellowships for drug abuse researchers from three nations. Read more »

Announces the recipients of NIDA scholarships to the 2017 Dutch program, which focuses on policy models, prevention, and evidence-based treatment for addiction. Read more »

Describes a meeting between officials from Uruguay and the NIDA Hubert H. Humphrey Drug Abuse Research Fellows to discuss the country’s efforts to prevent tobacco use through public health regulations. Read more »

Provides links to two Spanish-language animations about cocaine and subscription options for the NIDA Notes email digest, topic-specific RSS feeds, or podcast series. Read more »