Attorney General Awards $50 Million in Effort to Improve Health of Children
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is awarding $50 million of opioid settlement funds to Arkansas Children’s to pioneer one of the nation’s most ambitious research efforts dedicated to opioids’ impact on children.
The National Center for Opioid Research & Clinical Effectiveness (NCOR) will position Arkansas as a national leader in understanding the impacts of the opioid crisis on the fetus, newborn and developing children. It will also accelerate development of effective evidence-based treatments that radically improve child health and inform state and national policy efforts. Research published in the journal Pediatrics this year shows opioids are the leading cause of poisoning deaths in children under age 5 across the nation.
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