Communities hit hardest by the opioid epidemic could have better options to help the 2 million Americans with an opioid use disorder under an NIH project.
The HEALing Communities Study aims to develop the best evidence for an improved response to a crisis linked to more than 115 deaths a day in the U.S. and a burden that costs the nation $78.5 billion a year, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The study will work within existing health-care and criminal justice settings to develop models of care designed to expand ...
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