Addiction Policy Forum & Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Launch Initiative To Vaccinate People With Addiction Disorder Against COVID-19

Addiction Policy Forum (APF) and the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) launched an initiative to vaccinate people with addiction disorder against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The program is funded by a grant of $125,843 from FORE. The initiative will provide trained "vaccine navigators" to help schedule vaccine appointments and address concerns about taking the vaccine among people with addiction disorder over the next few months. Assistance will be provided to people in treatment or recovery from an addiction disorder, as well as for their family members or other caregivers.

Through the new program, vaccine navigators will help . . .