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“Throwing Away Knowledge”: Researchers Speak on US Defunding

“Throwing Away Knowledge”: Researchers Speak on US Defunding

In 2025, the Trump administration began its promised reform of health and science, announcing in February 2025 that the National Institute for Health (NIH)’s funding would be slashed by $4 billion. A May memo outlined their further intentions, removing billions of funding from other public bodies that funded “radical gender and climate ideologies antithetical to the American way of life”. 

These changes to medical, social and public research will impact millions of studies, altering our understanding of substance use, addiction and more. It’s not just research into drugs that has been impacted: work into cancer treatment, climate change and populational health has also been targeted for termination. Speaking to defunded addiction researchers and harm reduction experts, we’ve looked at what has been slated for termination, and what defunding may mean for the US in the long run. (Talking Drugs, UK, 25.09.2025)

https://www.talkingdrugs.org/throwing-away-knowledge-researchers-speak-on-costs-of-us-science-defunding/