Prosecutor says a murder charge based on a drug overdose may be a first for the state of Indiana.

With few resources and a small budget, Ross County in southern Ohio is trying a proactive approach that could be working.

In the last few months, two Brown County High School graduates have overdosed and died.

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

More than a quarter of people surveyed by researchers at IUPUI said they didn't call 911 at the scene of an overdose for fear of arrest.

Some officers are now carrying up to three doses of naloxone.

The study also shows that Indiana's reports don't reflect the actual number of overdose deaths in which opioid drugs are present.

The CDC reports that the national drug-related death rate has increased more than two and a half times since 1999.

Last year alone, Narcan saved more than 2,000 opioid users in Indianapolis from overdoses.

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