The pilot program, available to officers in the Downtown District, is part of Mayor Joe Hogsett’s larger criminal justice reform effort.

Brown County is known for farming, shopping, historical sites and its state park. However, rural parts of the state are also becoming known as the center of the opioid epidemic.

The Clark County Health Department is waiting on final numbers but said tests so far show 60 drug-related deaths in 2017. That compares to 90 in 2016.

The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis released its report on recommendations to help curb the nation’s opioid crisis.

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

The proposed pilots would require the State’s Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to contract with local health providers in Tippecanoe, Wayne and Marion counties to offer evidence-based treatment — inpatient, outpatient and residential — to addicted adults at serious risk of injury or death.

A program using horses is helping a group of men in recovery.

Legislators have proposed bills that would help fund and establish places to help pregnant mothers addicted to opioids and their children born dependent.

A new national report finds the number of babies born addicted to drugs has risen sharply, especially in rural areas.

In 2014, Indiana passed a law creating both a task force and a pilot program that would study the prevalence of neonatal drug exposure in Indiana.