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for National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.)
Biography"President Nixon signed the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 on December 31, 1970. This legislation—also known as the Hughes Act, for Senator Harold Hughes, a recovering alcoholic who championed the cause of alcoholism research—authorized a comprehensive Federal program to address prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism was first established as a component of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). It then became a separate institute alongside NIMH and the National Institute on Drug Abuse under the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. Since 1974, it has been an independent Institute of the National Institutes of Health. In its more-than-40-year history, NIAAA has led the effort to reframe alcohol abuse as a medical—rather than a moral—issue, and to study issues relating to alcohol and health systematically, through evidence-based findings." -- https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/our-work/history-niaaa
