Department of Health Policy and Management

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    Opioid Overdoses in Indiana: A Closer Look at Opioid Type
    (The Center for Health Policy, 2018-06-01) Kooreman, Harold
    The misuse of prescription and illicit opioids remains at epidemic proportions, costing the United States billions of dollars annually. Overdose deaths in both the U.S. and Indiana have seen a dramatic increase over the past ten years. Until recently, prescription opioids were responsible for the greatest number of overdose deaths, but now have been surpassed by fatalities involving heroin and illicitly manufactured narcotics, primarily fentanyl.
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    Substance Abuse in Indiana: An Urban-Rural Perspective
    (The Center for Health Policy, 2017-06-01) Kooreman, Harold E.; Greene, Marion S.
    The use of alcohol and drugs is a significant public health problem in the United States. Indiana, like many other states in the nation, is lacking in substance abuse treatment services and rural areas are particularly underserved. Rural residents may encounter additional barriers to receiving substance abuse treatment, including stigma, fear that they may know their treatment providers, a lack of access to specialized services, inferior quality of care, and having to pay more for treatment.
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    Substance Abuse Trends in Indiana: A 10-Year Perspective
    (The Center for Health Policy, 2017-04-01) Balio, Casey; Greene, Marion S.
    Substance use is a significant public health problem in the United States. Excessive use of alcohol and drugs has been linked to increased morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular conditions; injuries and motor vehicle crashes; sexually transmitted and blood-borne illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C, resulting from risky sexual behaviors and/or injection drug use; pregnancy complications and neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS); and drug overdoses [5, 6].