HEAL Initiative
The Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative
The NIH HEAL Initiative® is an NIH-wide effort to improve prevention and treatment strategies for opioid misuse and addiction and to enhance pain management.
Established in April 2018, the NIH HEAL Initiative® (Helping to End Addiction Long-term®) is a congressionally funded program created to accelerate scientific solutions to America’s opioid crisis. Multiple institutes and centers within NIH collaborate under HEAL, advancing research across many fronts to meet this urgent public health emergency.
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