The grants were distributed on Sept. 27 as part of the NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or HEAL, initiative. The project was established in early 2018 to fund the work of researchers seeking to improve treatments for chronic pain, decrease opioid use disorder and overdose rates and facilitate long-term addiction recovery.
The five University of Michigan-based teams chosen by the NIH span the Michigan Medicine system, several physical and behavioral health-related departments across the university and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. The grants range from $420,000 to study drug-related deaths in the decades-long Monitoring the Future study, to $12.6 million for the University of Michigan Mechanistic Research Center, where researchers will develop non-opioid treatments for chronic low back pain.
Read more about the grants here.
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