u.s. surgeon general on emotional well being and fighting the opioid epidemic /

From September 2019 to September 2020,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported nearly 90000 overdose deaths in the United States. These latest data on the nation’s opioid crisis offer another stark reminder that help is desperately needed in communities across the land. NIH’s research efforts to address the opioid crisis bear been stressed during the pandemic, but creative investigators bear near up with workarounds like wider exhaust of telemedicine to fill the gap. Much of NIH’s work on the opioid crisis is supported by the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative.

Source: nih.gov