The Allen County Board of Commissioners approved a needle exchange program to curb the spread of hepatitis C and HIV with a 2-1 vote.

The IUPUI study looked at crime rates in the three years after California passed criminal code reforms similar to those in Indiana.

Hospital representatives say 23 babies were born with an opioid addiction through the first four months of this year.

Acute cases of hepatitis C are increasing in Indiana, and public health officials are pointing to injection drug use as the biggest reason.

State health department officials say reasons for that increase could include more testing, an increase in test accuracy and a rise in injection drug use.

Offenders arrested for using or possessing small amounts of drugs and other petty crimes driven by drug use will be given the choice to take part in the program.

Since the beginning of last year, only 69 Scott County residents have gone into the inpatient rehab program run by the community mental health center, and that includes the people who didn't finish.

Prescription painkiller abuse sparked an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana. Kelly McEvers takes NPR's new podcast, Embedded, inside the home where IV drug users meet.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says the state is taking a "three-legged stool approach" to confronting drug abuse and addiction in Indiana by making more treatment options available, strengthening law enforcement and increasing prevention efforts.