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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§284q–1 Nih Opioid Research

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part B — General Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes › § 284q–1

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The NIH Director may expand and coordinate basic, translational, and clinical research to learn about pain, to find and develop treatments for chronic pain, and to create non-opioid pain therapies. When choosing what research to support, NIH must consider advice from the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee and the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force. It must also follow the National Pain Strategy, the Federal Pain Research Strategy, and the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2016–2020, which says research priorities should take into account how much different diseases burden people.

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Title 42, §284q–1

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(a)In general
The Director of the National Institutes of Health (referred to in this section as the “NIH”) may intensify and coordinate fundamental, translational, and clinical research of the NIH with respect to—
(1)the understanding of pain;
(2)the discovery and development of therapies for chronic pain; and
(3)the development of alternatives to opioids for effective pain treatments.
(b)Priority and direction
The prioritization and direction of the Federally funded portfolio of pain research studies shall consider recommendations made by the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee in concert with the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force, and in accordance with the National Pain Strategy, the Federal Pain Research Strategy, and the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2016–2020, the latter of which calls for the relative burdens of individual diseases and medical disorders to be regarded as crucial considerations in balancing the priorities of the Federal research portfolio.

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Codification Section was enacted as part of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

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42 U.S.C. § 284q–1

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110