Indiana added less than 20,000 residents in 2022 — the smallest annual population increase since 2015 and only the second time in 35 years that’s happened.

Some substances — like alcohol or cannabis — are more normalized and don’t hold the same stigma as others. And many use these substances casually, which can make it difficult to identify when substance use has become problematic.

We sought out people with lived experience with substance use and recovery and invited them to share their stories with us — on the record, in the first person and in their own voice.

Across Indiana, numerous groups support people living in recovery from addiction. They provide services like peer support groups and educational resources.

Many also provide harm reduction services – things like fentanyl strips to identify the presence of the deadly substance, and naloxone, a lifesaving medication that reverses overdoses.

Many people who re-enter society after incarceration face barriers that make it hard to find and keep a job and be successful. They also face stigma.

When someone has a substance use disorder, it can upend their lives, which also affects their family members and loved ones.

Residents across a wide swath of the US South and Midwest raced to assess the destruction Sunday wreaked by storms that dropped possibly dozens of tornadoes and killed at least 26 people in small towns and big cities.

Three people died in Indiana's Sullivan County, near the Illinois line about 95 miles (150 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.

Unrelenting tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest have killed at least 11 people.

Indiana resident and member of the Proud Boys, Jon Schaffer, was one of the first to plead guilty to federal charges for the January 6, 2021 insurrection.