The stigma surrounding opioid addiction can factor into whether or not a person seeks treatment.

In Indiana, experts admit the bar for involuntary treatment - committing someone to medical care without their consent - is high.

There were 21 centers in Indiana awarded funds to help increase behavioral health services.

An anti-drug abuse task force in Bartholomew County is working on recommendations that include providing more treatment for opioid addiction in what is now an unused part of the county jail.

While treatment for the disease is relatively straightforward, the communication between insurers and providers can be riddled with clerical errors and prone to delays.

At one hospital in Indianapolis, doctors started to try to intervene and connect overdose patients with treatment instead of simply discharging them.

If a baby is born with traces of illicit drugs in its system, Child Protective Services will likely start an investigation.

NPR and Side Effects Public Media have identified at least eight courts out of the several dozen in Indiana that say they only allow a treatment from drugmaker Alkermes.

Even though most insurers cover the medicine women need to avoid withdrawal while pregnant, they require prior authorizations which can be riddled with bureaucratic hold-ups and clerical errors.

Medicaid spending on three important medications used to treat opioid addiction increased 136 percent nationwide between 2011 and 2016.