HEAL Initiative: Translating Addiction Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Research into Practice
Funds action-oriented research turning addiction prevention, treatment and recovery science into real-world practice.
Knowing an addiction treatment works in a trial is not the same as it being used in a clinic down the street. This notice funds research that closes that gap — not more efficacy science, but the work of getting what already works into practice.
The scope is broad on purpose: prevention, treatment services, and recovery research for substance use, plus the opioid crisis and overdose specifically. …
Action-oriented research translating addiction epidemiology, prevention, treatment-services and recovery science into practice, at the individual, provider, organisational, community or system level, prioritising replicable, scalable approaches and including research on chronic pain that co-occurs with substance use.
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