Pain management research from the NIH HEAL Initiative

Barbara Illowsky Karp; Rebecca G Baker

doi:10.3389/fpain.2023.1266783

Pain management research from the NIH HEAL Initiative

Front Pain Res (Lausanne). 2023 Nov 28:4:1266783. doi: 10.3389/fpain.2023.1266783. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Barbara Illowsky Karp¹, Rebecca G Baker²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
² Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the pain research programs within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative®. Launched in 2018 to address the opioid crisis, the NIH HEAL Initiative supports research on addiction prevention and treatment. A key component of addiction prevention is the development of new, effective, non-addictive treatments for acute and chronic pain. HEAL's innovate research portfolio spans the spectrum from therapeutic discovery and development through clinical trials and into clinical practice.

Keywords: HEAL Initiative; NIH (National Institutes of Health); clinical trials; pain; research.

Grants and funding

The authors declare that no financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.