Bill > S2260

This bill establishes and provides $5 billion in funding for the Opioids and STOP Pain Initiative at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The initiative will support research on understanding pain, developing new therapies for chronic pain and alternatives to opioids, improving medication-assisted treatment and overdose reversal treatments, and other elements of the federal government's strategy to address the opioid crisis. The bill also creates a Pain Therapy Screening Program at the NIH to develop new pre-clinical models for pain disorders and test new drug, device, or other therapies. The funding for this initiative is designated as an emergency requirement, and the bill allows the NIH to accept donations and include them as part of the research credit for tax purposes.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2260/all-info