The Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Initiative℠, or NIH HEAL Initiative℠, has launched an online communication and collaboration space, the Moving HEAL Research into Action Idea Exchange, to collect information that will shape the future of the initiative’s research on pain and addiction. Researchers, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders in the opioid crisis are encouraged to register for free and submit ideas to the exchange by June 1.

Information collected in the idea exchange will help the NIH HEAL Initiative identify research information that is important to stakeholders in the pain and opioid misuse communities and guide the initiative on how to share the results of research most effectively.

One component of the NIH HEAL Initiative is the PRISM program—Pragmatic and Implementation Studies for the Management of Pain to Reduce Opioid Prescribing. Six PRISM Demonstration Projects 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. The NIH Collaboratory Coordinating Center serves as the PRISM Resource Coordinating Center.