Guidelines and Resources
The NIAAA National Advisory Board and Extramural Advisory Board established a core of guidelines for conducting alcohol research. These guidelines include recommendations on:
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Clinical Trial Regulations, Policies, and Guidance – How to conduct clinical trials
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Guidelines for Establishing and Operating a Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) – How to establish and operate a DSMB for clinical trials
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Recommended Council Guidelines on Ethyl Alcohol Administration in Human Experimentation - How alcohol researchers can ethically and responsibly administer alcohol to human subjects in the course of research
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Council Task Force on Recommended Alcohol Questions - How to develop and integrate questions that help determine people’s patterns of alcohol consumption
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Data and Safety Monitoring Guidelines - How to ensure the safety of participants in trials of behavioral or pharmacological interventions, human laboratory studies in which alcohol and/or drugs are administered, or human laboratory or clinical studies involving patients in alcohol treatment
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Certificates of Confidentiality (NIAAA-Specific) - Protecting the Identity of Research Subjects] - How to apply for authority to withhold the names and other identifying characteristics of individuals who participate as subjects in alcohol-funded research project
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Review of Extramural Research Areas - How to design and conduct research on a variety of alcohol topics