National Institute of Drug Abuse

National Institute of Drug Abuse
Parent organization	US/Department/Health and Human Services
Headquarters	6001 Executive Blvd, North Bethesda, Maryland, USA
United States federal government research institute whose mission is to "advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health."

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is a United States federal government research institute whose mission is to "advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health."

Research

“As the National Institute of Drug Abuse, our focus is primarily on the negative consequence of marijuana use. We generally do not fund research focused on the potential beneficial effects of marijuana.”
NIDA Spokesman

A 2003 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that "youth who were more exposed to [anti-drug advertising campaign] messages are no more likely to hold favorable beliefs or intentions about marijuana than are youth less exposed to those messages."

In the 1990s, NIDA funded research by John W. Huffman that was focused on making a drug to target endocannabinoid receptors in the body; this resulted in the discovery of a variety of substances that are now being sold as synthetic cannabis, etc.

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