Indiana University Health, which has 16 hospitals across the state, is cutting back on opioid prescriptions and giving more advice to patients.

A small, handheld device with three little probes to push through the skin and freeze nerves that cause pain. This typically happens a week before the surgery takes place.

Gov. Eric Holcomb signed three bills last month into law that will take effect July 1.

The Indiana State Hospital Association, the State Department of Health and the Indiana State Medical Association collaborated to craft new guidelines that focus on management of outpatient acute pain.

The study also shows that Indiana's reports don't reflect the actual number of overdose deaths in which opioid drugs are present.

The proposal would apply to first time adult patients and children and would also allow people to only have a portion of their prescription filled.

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.

From 2014 to 2015, Indiana saw a 7.5 percent decrease in the total amount of prescriptions, making it the 11th highest in the U.S. and slightly above the national average.