Jennings County Sheriff Gary Driver says Tuesday's overdoses sent deputies racing from home to home across the county to administer an anti-overdose drug to victims.

The Indiana attorney general is putting a "surge" of heroin and opioid antidote into communities to combat a rising number of overdose deaths.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is forming a task force to recommend steps that state officials should take to fight drug abuse.

From 2003 to 2013 - the most recent year for which data is available - the number of heroin overdose deaths in Indiana grew from three to 152.