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In 1986, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) invited the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, to assess the current state of knowledge about alcoholism and to delineate salient research issues. Two volumes resulted; the first, in 1987, was calledCauses and Consequences of Alcohol Problems: An Agenda for Research. This second and final volume deals with prevention and treatment research. Since NIAAA paid for this study, and because it was written by a committee, the reader should not be surprised by its bureaucratic literary style or its tendency to elephantine generalities. Little effort is made here to shape the data and opinions into elegant, concise research strategies. Readers must be artful enough to do this on their own. To be fair, the authors do state that they wanted to avoid assigning priority to research goals. Instead, they identified as many goals
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