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.

Researchers found that costs associated with tobacco use total $6.8 billion each year.

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

Community members will be able to go to the local health department to get training on how to administer naloxone and receive a free dose.

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.

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.

The General Assembly approved a bill Wednesday that aims to give more people access to the overdose intervention drug naloxone and protect them when they use it.