The opioid and pain crises affect every domain of family and community life with two million Americans living with opioid addiction, and 46,802 people dying from opioid overdoses in 2018 alone (National Center for Health Statistics, 2019). In addition, over 50 million Americans experience chronic pain, and half of those people suffer from chronic pain daily. Opioids are widely used to treat acute and chronic pain, and the lack of widespread access to nonpharmacological strategies to manage pain has contributed to the misuse of opioids. In fiscal year 2018, Congress added $500 million to the NIH's base appropriation to generate scientific solutions to the opioid and pain crises in America. The result was the Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative, a bold transagency effort. The authors of this editorial-psychologists in leadership roles in three NIH institutes- highlight several investments of the NIH HEAL Initiative, note the role of psychologists involved in HEAL, and describe the unprecedented steps the NIH is taking to harmonize data and rapidly and widely disseminate HEAL findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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客座社论：心理学家旨在治愈阿片类药物和疼痛危机。

阿片类药物和疼痛危机影响到家庭和社区生活的各个领域，200 万美国人患有阿片类药物成瘾，仅 2018 年就有 46,802 人死于阿片类药物过量（国家卫生统计中心，2019 年）。此外，超过 5000 万美国人经历慢性疼痛，其中一半人每天都遭受慢性疼痛。阿片类药物被广泛用于治疗急性和慢性疼痛，但由于缺乏广泛的非药物策略来控制疼痛，导致阿片类药物的滥用。在 2018 财年，国会在 NIH 的基本拨款中增加了 5 亿美元，用于为美国的阿片类药物和疼痛危机提供科学解决方案。结果是帮助终止成瘾长期计划，或 NIH HEAL 计划，这是一项大胆的跨机构努力。这篇社论心理学家在三个 NIH 研究所担任领导角色的作者 - 强调了 NIH HEAL 计划的几项投资，注意了参与 HEAL 的心理学家的作用，并描述了 NIH 正在采取的前所未有的步骤来协调数据并迅速和广泛地传播治疗结果。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。