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CMS finalizes measures to help combat opioid crisis


 


Also on April 4, the National Institutes of Health launched the HEAL Initiative (Helping to End Addiction Long-Term) to increase research to help prevent addiction through advanced pain management, and improve treatments for opioid misuse disorder and addiction. NIH is nearly doubling funding into opioid misuse/addiction research from $600 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.1 billion in fiscal 2018.

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