The NIH HEAL Initiative℠, or Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Initiative℠, announced its intent to publish a new funding opportunity for cooperative research that will accelerate implementation of nonopioid interventions for chronic pain management in rural and remote populations. The initiative will support pragmatic, implementation, and hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials that study strategies for equitably and efficiently implementing effective interventions and evidence-based pain management guidelines in rural and remote communities.
The funding opportunity announcement is expected to be published in fall 2022, with an expected application due date in winter 2022. Funded projects will become part of the NIH HEAL Initiative’s PRISM (Pragmatic and Implementation Studies to Improve the Management of Pain and Reduce Opioid Prescribing) program.
The NIH Collaboratory Coordinating Center serves as the PRISM Resource Coordinating Center. Six PRISM NIH Collaboratory Trials within the NIH Collaboratory are studying the real-world effectiveness of nonpharmacologic interventions for pain and assessing the implementation of these interventions to improve pain management and reduce reliance on opioids.