Addiction

U.S. Surgeon General – and former Indiana Health Commissioner – Jerome Adams says additional screenings could offer Indiana college students more…

After months of struggling to secure a location, the Tippecanoe County Health Department plans to inaugurate a needle exchange program in its building…

Indiana senators are looking to add more restrictions and regulations to county syringe exchange programs, or SEPs.Four amendments have been added a bill…

A bill that would give counties the ability to set up needle exchanges without first getting state approval is one step closer to becoming law.A Senate…

In his state of the city address this week, Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski touted reductions in many different categories of crime.But publicly available…

A group of Indiana lawmakers is recommending the General Assembly take up a draft bill that would offer addiction treatment to certain misdemeanor…

A recent study finds the taste of alcohol is closely linked to addiction markers in the brain. The research project from a team at the IU School of…

Four Indiana health centers will receive more than $1.5 million in federal funding to address heroin and opioid abuse.The funds are part of a $95 million…

Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly introduced an amendment to federal legislation Wednesday that addresses the national opioid and heroin use…

When Justin Phillips lost her son Aaron to a heroin overdose in October of 2013, she didn’t know there was a drug that could have saved his life. Now,…