NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins stated today that the NIH HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-termSM) Initiative is taking an “all-hands-on deck” approach to the national opioid crisis, requiring “almost every NIH IC to attack the problem from all angles…”
“Through the NIH HEAL Initiative, more than $850 million will be awarded in fiscal year 2019, bolstering existing research in the areas of addiction, pain, complementary medicine, and more to accelerate scientific solutions to the national opioid crisis. In fact, NIH published more than 30 new targeted funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) under the HEAL Initiative on December 10, 2018, to solicit the best and brightest research ideas to address the national opioid crisis…”
“As a HEAL participant, NCCIH is leading, co-leading, and supporting numerous FOAs. Some funding opportunities request research proposals to assess effectiveness, integration, and implementation of complementary pain management interventions in health care systems. Other FOAs address the treatment of OUD. There are short turnaround times for applying to these FOAs…” Read the full article here.
Source: All-Hands-on-Deck: NCCIH Needs You To Respond to the NIH HEAL Initiative – By Helene Langevin and David Shurtleff, December 10, 2018. NIH.
