Workshop: The Intersection of Pain and Substance Use

Virtual Workshops: Developing HEAL Pain Strategic Research Priorities

Agendas forthcoming and will be added ~2 weeks prior to each workshop

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative®, is an NIH-wide effort that seeks to speed scientific solutions to the overdose epidemic, including opioid and stimulant use disorders, and the crisis of chronic pain. NIH HEAL Initiative research aims to reduce pain and the risk of opioid use disorder by developing safe and effective pain treatment and prevention strategies to improve quality of life for all people. There are now more new cases of chronic pain among U.S. adults than other long-term conditions like diabetes, depression, and high blood pressure. Lack of safe and effective treatments to manage pain is an urgent public health problem. New treatments that can safely and effectively manage pain are needed now.

To date, the NIH HEAL Initiative has supported…