NIH launches $270 million anti-overdose research program for, and led by, Native Americans
Fatal drug overdoses shot up during the peak of Covid-19 in 2020. And as the dust settled on the pandemic, it quickly became clear that one demographic group had fared far worse than any other: Native Americans.
Now, to combat the drug crisis and its disproportionate impact on indigenous people, the federal government is launching an initiative specifically meant to bolster research into addiction and overdose within native communities.
