opioid epidemic

The survey from the Family and Social Services Administration will measure a person’s overall well being and the resources available to a person in recovery from addiction, and help track the overall recovery capital of the state.

Statewide and national recovery advocates gathered in Noblesville Friday to discuss best practices for influencing public policy.

An estimated 2,755 Hoosiers died of drug overdoses in 2021, a record high for the second year in a row.

Indiana is set to receive more than $500 million over the next two decades from a settlement with opioid manufacturers.

The Legislature is poised to send bills to Governor Gretchen Whitmer that would clear the way for Michigan to get its share of the national opioid lawsuit settlement.

The Michigan Senate passed legislation Thursday that would create the framework for how to spend the state's share of a $26 billion opioid settlement.

A state House committee adopted two bills Tuesday to ensure that Michigan’s share of the national opioid settlement with drug manufacturers is used to treat addiction.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel toured an addiction treatment center in Saginaw Monday in preparation of the state receiving around $800 million from a recent settlement with some of the nation’s top opioid distributors.

The South Bend Common Council voted unanimously Monday night to opt the city back into Indiana’s opioid lawsuit settlement plan.

The settlement involves three of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributors and an opioid manufacturer. The companies will start releasing funds to a national administrator next month. Money will start flowing to state and local governments in the second or third quarter of this year.