LA PORTE COUNTY OPIOID STUDY

Prescription Drugs spilling out of a pill bottle onto a table

Therapy Session with people seated in a circle talking and laughing

The La Porte County Opioid Study was commissioned by the Healthcare Foundation of La Porte through the Center for Health Policy at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. The study addresses the burden of opioid addiction in La Porte County and makes recommendations to address the community’s needs and gaps related to this issue.

This study is a result of HFL’s participation in the Indiana Network for the Prevention and Treatment of Opioid Addiction (INPTOA). In 2016, former Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller seeded the creation of this statewide network of Indiana foundations with a $500,000 matching grant from Indiana’s Consumer Protection Education Fund. A group of foundations collectively matched $500,000 by December 31, 2016. HFL provided a match and was a recipient of a grant of $78,000 to be used to support INPTOA’s purpose of providing single county and multi-county collaborative grants to assess, prevent, and treat opioid addiction, and provide community financial support for housing, employment, monitoring, and counseling.