 The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) has received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is using this to implement Together We Will. Together We Will is a mini-grant and technical assisting program focused on funding community projects. This program impacts eight public health priority areas, including infant and maternal mortality, environmental justice, substance use disorder, mental health, COVID-19 hesitancy, access, violence, and structural and systemic barriers.
Organizations that apply for the funding in the substance use disorder category should offer strategies such as advocacy for, education about, or expansion of access to substance use prevention, treatment and/or recovery. Examples of these activities include: develop and distribute substance use education information to the community, partner to provide long-term recovery programming consistently, develop a social network for individuals in recovery or survey individuals in recovery for community needs.
Applicants must be located in Indiana to be eligible for funding. Local health departments, hospitals, local government agencies, local coordinating councils, recovery-oriented systems of care, recovery hubs, drug-free coalitions, community coalitions, faith-based institutions and not-for-profit organizations that have experienced in leading community health improvement activities will all be considered for approval. Applicants may apply for grants in an amount ranging from $1,000 at a minimum to $75,000 at a maximum.
Please click here to apply.
 A new study suggests that when patients who inject opioids continue an antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis outside of the hospital, they experience better long-term health outcomes than patients who receive the standard four to six weeks of inpatient, intravenous antibiotic therapy. This is also a more cost-effective approach.
Endocarditis is a life-threatening inflammation of the heart valves that requires antibiotic treatment. Twenty percent of patients admitted with drug use-associated endocarditis leave the hospital before completing treatment, which is why at-home antibiotic treatment would be more effective. This would allow people who use drugs to not only heal from endocarditis but do so in a way that they can more easily return to work, to life, and to family. Most people with substance use disorder would prefer being in a hospital for a short amount of time, if at all. So, this would increase the chances of them receiving complete treatment.
 Please visit the Indiana Drug Overdose Dashboard, where you will find data from 2017 up to provisional data for 2021. In this dashboard, you will find data regarding opioid prescriptions, hospital discharges, and drug-related deaths.
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