Earlier this month, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory. More Americans he said, should know how to use naloxone.

As Indiana's top health official for three years, Adams championed harm reduction methods in response to the opioid crisis.

The Indiana State Department of Health hands out $127,000 in naloxone kits to 34 rural counties.

Overdose deaths in southern Indiana's Clark County dropped from 90 to 60 between 2016 and 2017, a 33 percent decrease, according to preliminary data.

The Clark County Health Department is waiting on final numbers but said tests so far show 60 drug-related deaths in 2017. That compares to 90 in 2016.

On Friday, the Indiana Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board agreed to remove prior authorizations for preferred versions of the addiction treatment medication buprenorphine.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, chair of the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, spoke Monday at the Indiana Attorney General's Prescription Drug Abuse Symposium in Indianapolis.

More than a quarter of people surveyed by researchers at IUPUI said they didn't call 911 at the scene of an overdose for fear of arrest.

Some officers are now carrying up to three doses of naloxone.

Last year alone, Narcan saved more than 2,000 opioid users in Indianapolis from overdoses.