News Releases

You will find the Foundation’s recent press releases and announcements on this page. Read more below, or contact us with questions. For all media inquiries, please contact Andrea Farmer, Chief Communications Officer, at farmer@rmff.org or (317) 663-4198.

September 8, 2016

The Indianapolis Star: Tobacco, opioid addiction cost Indiana $8.2B, thousands of lives

Tobacco and opioid addictions cost Indiana more than $8.2 billion annually, and the state should do more to address these problems, according to two studies released today by the Fairbanks Foundation and conducted by IUPUI’s Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. The toll from tobacco alone comes to $6.8 billion, taking into account health-care costs, […]