National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Am Psychol. 2020 Sep;75(6):866-868. doi: 10.1037/amp0000713.
The opioid and pain crises affect every domain of family and community life with two million Americans living with opioid addiction, and 46,802 people dying from opioid overdoses in 2018 alone (National Center for Health Statistics, 2019). In addition, over 50 million Americans experience chronic pain, and half of those people suffer from chronic pain daily. Opioids are widely used to treat acute and chronic pain, and the lack of widespread access to nonpharmacological strategies to manage pain has contributed to the misuse of opioids. In fiscal year 2018, Congress added $500 million to the NIH's base appropriation to generate scientific solutions to the opioid and pain crises in America. The result was the Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative, a bold transagency effort. The authors of this editorial-psychologists in leadership roles in three NIH institutes- highlight several investments of the NIH HEAL Initiative, note the role of psychologists involved in HEAL, and describe the unprecedented steps the NIH is taking to harmonize data and rapidly and widely disseminate HEAL findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
阿片类药物和疼痛危机影响到家庭和社区生活的各个领域，有 200 万美国人患有阿片类药物成瘾，仅在 2018 年就有 46802 人死于阿片类药物过量（国家卫生统计中心，2019 年）。此外，超过 5000 万美国人患有慢性疼痛，其中一半人每天都遭受慢性疼痛。阿片类药物被广泛用于治疗急性和慢性疼痛，而缺乏广泛获得非药物策略来管理疼痛导致了阿片类药物的滥用。在 2018 财年，国会向 NIH 的基本拨款中增加了 5 亿美元，以寻找解决美国阿片类药物和疼痛危机的科学解决方案。其结果是“帮助终结成瘾长期倡议”或 NIH HEAL 倡议，这是一项大胆的跨机构努力。这篇社论的作者——三位 NIH 机构的领导职位心理学家——强调了 NIH HEAL 倡议的几项投资，指出了参与 HEAL 的心理学家的作用，并描述了 NIH 为协调数据以及快速和广泛传播 HEAL 研究结果而采取的前所未有的步骤。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
