Clinical Intervention in Alcohol Use Disorder

Inclusion Criteria: * up to 75 abstinent individuals (18-65 years old; 2 weeks of abstinence) who meet DSM-V criteria for alcohol use disorder (AUD) will be recruited from the Lodging Plus Program, part of University of Minnesota Medical Center * This 28-day program provides a supervised environment to treat alcoholism in which patients receive random drug/alcohol screenings daily. Lodging Plus has 50 beds and admits an average of 20 patients per week and 59% of patients admitted have a diagnosis of alcohol use disorder. Inclusion criteria: * ability to provide written consent and comply with study procedures * meet the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) diagnostic criteria for AUD. Subjects may have current comorbid drug use, but their primary substance use disorder diagnosis needs to be based on alcohol use. Subjects must have the intention to remain in program until the end of the study (3 weeks). Vulnerable populations will not be included Exclusion Criteria: * any medical condition or treatment with neurological sequelae (i.e. stroke, tumor, loss of consciousness of more than 30 min, HIV) * a head injury resulting in a skull fracture or loss of consciousness exceeding 30 minutes (i.e., moderate or severe TBI) * any contraindications for tDCS or MRI scanning (tDCS contraindications: history of seizures; MRI contraindications; metal implants, pacemakers or any other implanted electrical device, injury with metal, braces, dental implants, non…