While treatment for the disease is relatively straightforward, the communication between insurers and providers can be riddled with clerical errors and prone to delays.

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

If a baby is born with traces of illicit drugs in its system, Child Protective Services will likely start an investigation.

NPR and Side Effects Public Media have identified at least eight courts out of the several dozen in Indiana that say they only allow a treatment from drugmaker Alkermes.

Even though most insurers cover the medicine women need to avoid withdrawal while pregnant, they require prior authorizations which can be riddled with bureaucratic hold-ups and clerical errors.

Medicaid spending on three important medications used to treat opioid addiction increased 136 percent nationwide between 2011 and 2016.

Five new opioid treatment programs are being added in the state's effort to combat the epidemic.

A new experiment is popping up in emergency departments across the country: Hospitals are hiring former addicts to connect patients with the support they need to get into treatment for addiction.

An investigation by NPR and WFYI's public health news service, Side Effects Public Media, found that in statehouses across the country, and in Congress, drugmaker Alkermes is pushing its addiction treatment drug, Vivitrol, while contributing to misconceptions and stigma about other medications used to treat opioid addiction.

A group of current and former inmates from Dearborn County Jail spoke at the Public Safety Coalition's first meeting Wednesday afternoon.