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.

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.

Previous grants for naloxone provided kits to law enforcement and first responders in 45 counties. Att. Gen. Greg Zoeller wants to provide the drug statewide.