Highlighting Recent NCCIH Pain-Research News: Part 1David Shurtleff, Ph.D. July 25, 2018 These are unprecedented times calling for targeted research by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and the wider National Institutes of Health community. Plans and actions focus on the opioid epidemic and the problems with which it is often associated: most prominently, pain, especially chronic pain; substance misuse and addiction; and mental health problems. In April, NIH launched the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) initiative, a large interagency effort to accelerate scientific solutions to stem our national public-health crisis related to opioids. HEAL is designed to speed NIH research to enhance pain management and improve treatments for opioid addiction (more information is available on the HEAL website). Since then, NCCIH and other agencies have been identifying and developing areas they think would benefit from focused efforts, on their own or in partnerships. The study of nonpharmacologic treatments and integrated approaches to manage pain are among HEAL’s major elements and have been longstanding commitments at NCCIH. |
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