What's in a name? Proposed name changes of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse and the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Addiction

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Midanik, Lorraine T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol beverage industry; Name change; NIAAA; NIDA; Pharmaceutical industry

Indexed keywords

TOPIRAMATE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LAW; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROBIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; UNITED STATES;

DRUG INDUSTRY; LOBBYING; NAMES; NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM (U.S.); NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE (U.S.); UNITED STATES;

EID: 36848999746     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.02037.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (6)

1. Biden Senator J. R. Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease. [Press release]. 2007. Available at: http://biden.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id= 271570&&&search_field=addiction%20is%20a%20preventable (accessed 11 June 2007).
2. Clarke A. E., Shim J. K., Mamo L., Fosket J. R., Fishman J. R. Biomedicalization: technoscientific transformations of health, illness, and U.S. biomedicine. Am Sociol Rev 2003 68 : 161 94.
3. Yi H., Chen C. M., Williams G. D. Trends in Alcohol-Related Fatal Traffic Crashes, United States, 1982-2004. Surveillance Report no. 76. Bethesda, MD : National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Division of Epidemiology August 2006.
4. Conrad P. The Medicalization of Society. On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press 2007.
5. Midanik L. T. Biomedicalization and alcohol studies: implications for policy. J Public Health Policy 2004 25 : 211 28.
6. Midanik L. T. Biomedicalization of Alcohol Studies: Ideological Shifts and Institutional Challenges. Rutgers, NJ : Transaction 2006.