Inspiring and accelerating action to end the opioid crisis.
FORE is a national grantmaking foundation committed to convening and supporting partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions.
Webinar: Lessons Learned (So Far) from FORE’s Innovation Challenge in Developing Responses to the Opioid Crisis (12/8/2022)
Grantee Spotlight: Integrating SUD Prevention into Primary Care
FORE Grant Focuses on Expanding Access to Prevention Programs in Schools
New FORE-Funded Report from the National Academies: Benefits and Challenges of Integrating SUD Prevention in Primary Care
New FORE Brief Showcases Ways to Lower Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Grantee Spotlight: Supporting States as They Finetune Their Opioid Response Efforts
Webinar: Lessons Learned in Community-Based Recovery Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic (9/15/2022)
FORE Releases Request for Proposals to Support Community-Driven Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Mortality
FORE Announces $2 Million in New Grants to Promote Medical-Legal Partnership, Reduce Coerced Substance Use, and Facilitate State Opioid Responses
"Increasingly, groups from around the country, disturbed about wounds they’re starting to see, are turning to [#FOREfdnGrantee @nabarund's] team to test their local #drug supply. The analyses typically uncover #xylazine in some of a community’s samples, but not all of them."
Fentanyl isn't the only toxin to have seeped into the American drug supply.
"Tranq," aka the animal anesthetic xylazine, is leading to "gnarly" wounds and is adding a new dimension to the already out-of-control U.S. drug crisis
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/02/tranq-xylazine-drug-users-wounds-philadelphia/ via @DrewQJoseph
#FOREfdnGrantee @nabarund of @UNCpublichealth is co-author on a recent @EpidemiologyLWW commentary that explores the "Complications in Using Real World Data to Study the Health of People Who Use #Drugs."
https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Citation/9900/Complications_in_Using_Real_World_Data_to_Study.83.aspx
This #WorldAIDSDay, Dr. Hansel Tookes shares insight about a new initiative advanced by the IDEA Exchange to help reduce the spread of #HIV and provide life-saving treatment for people in active addiction. Listen in!
#FOREfdnGrantees @do_less_harm and @HendreeJ are co-authors on a new @NEJM study that examines the use of #opioid agonists #buprenorphine versus #methodone in the treatment of pregnant people with #opioidusedisorder.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2203318
Recognizing An Urgent Need
The opioid crisis is impacting families and communities across the country. An estimated 213 Americans die every day (77,487 in the past 12 months) from an opioid overdose1, and an estimated 2.7 million experience an opioid use disorder2, affecting individuals, families, and communities across the nation.
Now more than ever, it is critical for us to think creatively, test new approaches, remove silos, and enhance and expand activities proven to prevent and reduce opioid use disorder.
1Provisional reported as of June 2022, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022
2Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2021
We are committed to convening and supporting partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions addressing the opioid crisis. With patients at the center, we are focused on supporting programs and grants in four key areas: Professional education, payer & provider strategies, policy initiatives, and public awareness.
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