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.

Childhood neglect cases are increasing in Indiana and many state agencies point to the rise in opioid addiction.

Indiana is one of the many states that has been wrestling with how to decrease its residents' drug use - especially of opioids, a class of drugs that includes heroin and some prescription painkillers. A new gadget is helping people at a Union County clinic get through the early phase of their recovery.

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

Jennings County Sheriff Gary Driver says Tuesday's overdoses sent deputies racing from home to home across the county to administer an anti-overdose drug to victims.

Living with active addiction can keep a person busy, almost like a job. That's why occupational therapy researchers think giving people in recovery something equally consuming to do -- such as acting in a play -- may be part of the cure.

Heroin and fentanyl overdoses more than doubled between 2014 and 2015 in Indianapolis, and the use of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan is on a record pace this year.

Indiana would receive the 16th highest amount of federal funding under the president's proposal.