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.

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

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.

The Indiana attorney general is putting a "surge" of heroin and opioid antidote into communities to combat a rising number of overdose deaths.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is forming a task force to recommend steps that state officials should take to fight drug abuse.

From 2003 to 2013 - the most recent year for which data is available - the number of heroin overdose deaths in Indiana grew from three to 152.