Home Health Cures
The bill provides for $4.8 billion in new funding for the National Institutes of Health; of that, $1.8 billion is reserved for the “cancer moonshot” launched by Vice President Biden to accelerate research in that field. Another $1.6 billion is earmarked for brain diseases including Alzheimer’s. Also included are $500 million in new funding for the Food and Drug Administration and $1 billion in grants to help states deal with opioid abuse.
Congress passed sweeping legislation Wednesday that boosts funding for medical research, eases the development and approval of experimental treatments and reforms federal policy on mental health care.  North Carolina will receive more than $31 million in federal funds designed to help increase the number of opioid abusers in treatment programs statewide by nearly 20 percent.

Gov. Roy Cooper, Attorney General Josh Stein and Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen visited a Raleigh substance-abuse treatment center Thursday to announce the funding, to be distributed over two years.