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<p>Nothing could have prepared Shelley Elswick for that surreal moment during a February 2010 ice storm: driving in the middle of the night to bail out her 18-year-old son Alex from jail.</p><p>One moment Alex had been a high-achieving student athlete in his first year of college. The next, it seemed, her son was expelled from school and stuck in a jail cell arrested for selling drugs. Yet that dark journey was only the first of many surreal moments in Shelley’s relentless back-and-forth struggle to support her son as he moved toward recovery.</p><p>“When addiction happened to my family, I was totally unprepared,” Elswick says, explaining that she was frantic, didn’t know where to go for information, and was never told about FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder. Alex would go on to seek treatment for his addiction seven times and experienced many life-threatening relapses.</p><p>Ten years later, Alex is now in recovery. He and his mother founded <a href="https://www.voicesofhopelex.org/">Voices of Hope</a>, a recovery community organization in Lexington, Kentucky that is partnering with the <a href="https://heal.nih.gov/research/research-to-practice/healing-communities">HEALing Communities Study</a>, funded as part of the <a href="https://heal.nih.gov/">Helping to End Addiction Long-term<sup>®</sup> Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative<sup>®</sup></a> as part of its <a href="https://heal.nih.gov/research/research-to-practice">translation of research to practice for the treatment of opioid addiction</a>. Through this study, the Elswicks and thousands of community members across the country — connected to the opioid epidemic in one way or another — are working hard to reverse its course.</p><h2><strong>Communities in need of healing</strong></h2><p>To help families like the Elswicks get access to high-quality, effective treatment, the National Institutes of Health and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration launched the HEALing Communities Study. This research is being conducted within some of the states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic: Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio.</p><p>The study’s goal is ambitious but urgently needed: to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths in participating communities in these four states by 40% in three years. Although many types of opioids can lead to overdoses, illicit and extremely potent synthetic opioids like <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/stop-overdose/caring/fentanyl-facts.html">fentanyl</a> account for the majority of opioid-related deaths in the United States.</p><p>“Overprescribing of opioids created fertile ground for opioid misuse, and then fentanyl hit us hard,” says Jeffrey Samet, M.D., of Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts, who leads the Massachusetts HEALing Communities Study project.</p><p>The HEALing Communities Study stands out in a special way: as an innovative team effort powered by people in communities who are deciding how to implement solutions that work in their own backyard. Along with the Elswicks, many individuals and organizations are playing a direct role in figuring out how to save the lives of friends and family (see “<a href="/news/stories/Voices-From-HEALing-Communities">Voices from the HEALing Communities Study</a>”).</p><p>“This research is similar to the concept of personalized medicine,” says Rebecca Jackson, M.D., of The Ohio State University, Columbus, who is leading the Ohio project.</p><p>“Every community is different: each needs effective interventions at the right time and in the right place.”</p>
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<p>Stigma within the healthcare system is also a challenge. Finding doctors who will prescribe these medications and pharmacists who will fill prescriptions can be difficult. Likewise, access to naloxone is limited in some states, some of which require a prescription for it. Like with medications to treat opioid use disorder, some physicians are reluctant to prescribe naloxone, and some pharmacies do not keep it in stock.</p>
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<p>The HEALing Communities Study leveraged its community partnerships to fast-track distribution of naloxone. Community coalitions worked with research teams to enhance availability and access to naloxone to individuals most at risk of overdose, including people being released from prison and jail because of COVID-19.</p>
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