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 .

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