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Rewriting the NarrativE

Arkansas Children’s Launches National Center to Protect Future Generations from the Opioid Crisis

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In a little over two decades, nearly 727,000 people died from opioid overdose in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Opioid dependence has significant impacts on children and families, given opioids are a leading cause of poisoning deaths in children under age 5, as well as a leading cause of maternal mortality. Beyond these preventable deaths, opioid misuse costs nearly $500 billion every year in the U.S. related to health care, substance use treatment, criminal justice and more. The numbers, while staggering, do not tell the whole story. Each number represents a life, and a family impacted. Children are the innocent victims of the opioid crisis, whether in the womb, from accidental poisoning, the removal from their parents or home or living with the grief of losing a parent or caregiver to death or incarceration. Arkansas Children’s experts understand the far-reaching effects of opioid use disorder on children and their families. We are working with the communities to rewrite the narrative.

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Historic Center

The National Center for Opioid Research & Clinical Effectiveness (NCOR) will be a first-of-its-kind center not only in Arkansas but nationwide, dedicated to understanding the effects of the opioid crisis on the fetus, newborns, developing children and adolescents, as well as pregnant and parenting individuals. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin awarded the $75-million center $55 million of opioid and vaping settlement funds, allowing for ambitious and groundbreaking research, and a dedicated NCOR building on the Arkansas Children’s Hospital campus in Little Rock.

“The opioid crisis has devastated Arkansas families, and we see the impact in our NICU, clinics and ER every day. By creating this center, we are accelerating a healthier future for the children of Arkansas. The brilliant capacity of the team already on the ground and those we will recruit will create a better today and healthier tomorrow for the unbelievable number of children who suffer in the opioid crisis’ wake.” — Marcy Doderer, FACHE, Arkansas Children’s president and chief executive officer

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Your gifts are essential to equipping this groundbreaking facility with advanced infrastructure, equipment and technology. Because of you, the clinical, social work and outreach teams can tackle the opioid crisis firsthand.

With your support — a first-of-its-kind center at Arkansas Children’s will transform health for families impacted by opioid addiction.

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Our NCOR scientists, researchers, medical experts and other team members have the unique opportunity to change the future of the opioid crisis. This work will champion new standards of care and policy changes and directly change people’s lives. It will only become a reality if passionate people step up to pioneer a path forward. Apply today and continue to check back, as a variety of career opportunities will be available.

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The HBCD Study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, is the largest long-term study of early brain and child development in the United States.

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To change the trajectory of the opioid crisis and its impact on children, we will be bold, innovative and creative in our approach to each study of hope. Your family can help us as we unravel the science behind addiction to allow for better treatments and prevention of prescription drug misuse in society’s youngest and most vulnerable. Keep checking back to learn more about participating in a study of hope.

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