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The fear was that it was futile. Emergency responders would deliver naloxone in the field, bring heroin users back from the brink of death, take them to a hospital for a quick check, and a few hours later, the patient would head back to the life that had brought them there in the first place. […]

Indiana ranks among the worst states nationally when it comes to opioid abuse — with drug overdoses in 2014 claiming more than 1,100 lives and costing the state $1.4 billion. But this year, we also may be one of the best positioned places to tackle the opioid epidemic by addressing its root causes and fundamentally […]

WFYI-FM 90.1 is bolstering its news department from 11 to 15—thanks to grants running through 2018—at a time many commercial print and broadcast news departments are downsizing. WFYI will use $600,000 from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation to hire four employees by April 1, launch a health news bureau, and expand the reach of its […]