New data from the IU Public Policy Institute’s Center for Health and Justice Research shows a drop in the number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Marion County. Despite the decline, opioids were still present in 78 percent of the county’s 361 overdose deaths in 2018. That same year, the number involving fentanyl, a synthetic… Read more »
Sitting in her office on the fourth floor of SPEA, Evan Lowder spends much of her time scanning through spreadsheets and poring over research literature. She’s working to combine the two into analysis she hopes will be used to inform policies and practices throughout Indiana and beyond. “I think there’s an obligation for researchers to… Read more »
The opioid epidemic continues to claim more than 115 lives per day across the United States. As researchers studying this epidemic, we feel it is important to update the residents in our community about the prevalence of opioid-related deaths here in Marion County. In partnership with the Marion County Coroner’s Office — and using our… Read more »
Fear of being arrested still undercuts an Indiana law that shields anyone who administers naloxone from criminal charges, according to a survey conducted by two researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Naloxone is a lifesaving emergency reversal drug for opioid overdose. Approximately 73 percent of survey respondents said 911 was called after naloxone was administered for… Read more »
