The use of naloxone to treat overdoses has significantly increased throughout the state of Indiana and has almost doubled in Clark County in recent months amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2018, opioid overdose deaths fell 13% in the county, and prescription opioid overdose deaths fell even more.

Indiana University's Addictions Crisis Grand Challenge initiative will oversee the training before distributing free naloxone kits to the first 1,000 who complete the training.

The online, interactive map, created in a partnership through the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and the Indiana Management Performance Hub, illustrates locational patterns in overdoses.

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

Standards for how to investigate and report on overdoses vary widely across states and counties and as a result, opioid overdose deaths are not always captured in the reported data.

A recent study estimates that in 2014 there were more than twice as many opioid-related deaths in Indiana than the state counted.

The team would report to the state health department who is dying from drug overdoses, circumstances surrounding each death and any commonalities between cases.

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 County Council has approved buying a cooler that can hold up to eight corpses.