U.S. Rep. Elijah Cumming, a Maryland Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, pushed for the increase in NIH funding to address addiction. The pair also worked on separate legislation winding through Congress for more funding for treatment and other means of addressing the opioid epidemic blamed for more than 49,000 deaths last year across the country, or more than two-third of all the overdose deaths.
“Baltimore City, one of the hardest hit communities in this national crisis, is a prime location for these clinical trials,” Cummings said. The institute “research that the NIH grant will support is exactly the kind of innovative work that the HEAL Initiative seeks to encourage to combat the opioid crisis that is devastating communities across the country.”
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