Feds send signal that merging NIDA, NIAAA could be on table again

A proposal to consolidate the two substance use‐focused institutes under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), abandoned amid controversy more than a decade ago, could be reintroduced as part of major cost‐cutting moves in the Trump administration. This time, the restructuring also could include NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the same consolidated entity with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).