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AUGUST 22, 2024

NIH Native American Research Initiative to Focus on Substance Use and Pain

Overdose death rates in the United States are highest among American Indian and Alaska Native people, prompting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch a new program to support  and fund public health efforts in Native communities to reduce overdose, substance use and pain. 

The program brings roughly $268 million in funding over seven years (“pending the availability of funds”). The Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Program will