NIDA starts new study, at infancy, complementary to ABCD

Abstract

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has a new study underway, designed to look at how environmental exposures, especially to opioids and other drugs, affect infant and child brain development. The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study recruits pregnant women to study their infants from birth. NIDA is conducting this study as part of the multi-agency Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative of the National Institutes of Health.