Eli Lilly and Pfizer are working together to develop the new class of drug that is in late-trial stages. There hasn't been a new pain medication discovery in about 50 years. The last new non-opioid pain medication to hit the market was ibuprofen in the late 1960s.

Hundreds attended the event sponsored the Indiana University Institute of Psychiatric Research and Mental Health America of Indiana.

Two different grants for 28 Indiana counties will provide naloxone and outreach education to combat overdose deaths.