Side Effects Public Media will be hosting virtual listening sessions on substance use, addiction and recovery.

For many high-poverty rural and urban areas, there are sparse health care resources. One listener in Columbus wondered why this problem was so prevalent.

Police awoke Indiana State athletic director Sherard Clinksdale early on Aug. 21 with tragic news. Two of the university’s football players, and another student, had died in a car accident.

More than $50 billion in opioid settlement dollars from drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies is starting to flow to state and local governments, and they need to figure out how to spend it.

Monkeypox was a contributing factor in the recent death of an Indiana resident, state health officials said Wednesday.

The Indiana Department of Health announced Wednesday the first person in Indiana has died from monkeypox.

The film – The Addict’s Wake – focuses on how the opioid epidemic impacts people with substance use disorder and their families and communities.

Dozens of people gathered at the headquarters of insurance giant Elevance Health in downtown Indianapolis, protesting what they described as the health insurer’s greed.

More than 30 people gathered outside the City-County Council building in downtown Indianapolis to demand the Marion County Health and Hospital Corporation withdraw its Supreme Court petition.

The life-to-death transition is not a favorite conversation piece. Lucia Wocial, PhD is a clinical ethicist who supports patients, families, and staff who face ethically challenging life and death decisions.