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Several Yale Program in Addiction Medicine Faculty Members Receive New NIH HEAL Initiative Awards
The National Institutes of Health describes the Helping End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative as “an aggressive, trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.” Initiated in 2018, the 2.5 billion-dollar initiative funds more than 1,000 projects across the country to advance understanding and treatment of opioid, other substance use disorders and pain. Among recent awardees are several core faculty members in the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine.