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Competing Interests: I was one of the first recipients of a small grant from NIAAA in 1971 when my career had just begun. Since that time, I have benefited from competitive grants of almost every support mechanism NIAAA has provided (R01s, K03, Center grants, R21, R25). Ironically, in the latter part of my career, an NIAAA R21 grant stimulated my interest in building methods and theories that help to evaluate how the alcohol industry can be considered an inducer of alcohol-related problems. I have also written extensively about COI issues in addiction science, and have done research, some of it supported by NIAAA, on the effects of alcohol marketing, and the strategies and tactics of the alcohol industry. I have never knowingly received funding from the alcohol industry or from organizations funded by it. I did accept an invitation to deliver a plenary address at an RSA meeting but decided to pay for the travel expenses myself after finding out that the plenary was funded by the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, which for many years was funded by the beer industry. |
