Indiana Adding Five Sites For Opioid Addiction Treatment

The state of Indiana will add five more opioid addiction treatment centers to its 14 existing medication-assisted treatment facilities. The new additions will be made in hopes of curbing deadly addiction to heroin and other pain-killing drugs in a state that saw more than a 300% increase in the number of overdose deaths from heroin between 2010 and 2015.

Set to be in operation by the end of next June, the new facilities will be located in Greenwood, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, Lafayette, and Bloomington. According to Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration, the main factors in . . .