Earlier this month, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory. More Americans he said, should know how to use naloxone.

Standards for how to investigate and report on overdoses vary widely across states and counties and as a result, opioid overdose deaths are not always captured in the reported data.

A recent study estimates that in 2014 there were more than twice as many opioid-related deaths in Indiana than the state counted.

The team would report to the state health department who is dying from drug overdoses, circumstances surrounding each death and any commonalities between cases.

Overdose deaths in southern Indiana's Clark County dropped from 90 to 60 between 2016 and 2017, a 33 percent decrease, according to preliminary data.

The County Council has approved buying a cooler that can hold up to eight corpses.

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

The county recently saw its 49th confirmed opioid-related death for 2017. There were 44 opioid-related deaths in 2016 and 42 in 2015.

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

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