An article published July 20, 2021 described an agreement under negotiation that would end thousands of lawsuits against the three largest pharmacuetical distributors, and Johnson & Johnson, and require them to pay billions for addiction treatment and prevention.
The NIH Pain Consortium has developed a webinar series on NIH grant mechanisms in pain research across career stages (training, transition and independent stages).
The goals of this virtual meeting are to discuss research gaps on racial inequities in substance use and addiction and to inform NIDA’s commitment to this area by identifying short- and long-term plans for enhancing the research portfolio.
On October 28, 2020, Dr. Christine Miaskowski, Professor of Nursing and Anesthesia, was awarded the 2020 Ada Sue Hinshaw Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR).
The National Cancer Institute noted a national study of Medicare beneficiaries' prescriptions for opioids and questioned whether cancer patients were receiving the opioids they needed to control pain.
Read this September 2020 commentary in Scientific American by the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.
