Reeling from Opioid Crisis, Indiana Tries to Fight Back

Reeling from Opioid Crisis, Indiana Tries to Fight Back
Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP

The opioid crisis has hit Indiana hard. In 2012, Indiana was among a handful of states whose opioid prescriptions roughly equaled its population. Three years later, intravenous drugs caused the nation's worst HIV outbreak in two decades, affecting 181 people in rural Scott County, Indiana. And since 2013, Indiana has had the dubious distinction of leading the nation in pharmacy robberies, beating even California, which has six times its population.



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