ISP to Receive Over $2 Million Grant to Help Fight Drug Creation, Distribution

Officials stated that drug overdoses and opioid-involved deaths continue to rise across the nation.

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(undated) – Indiana State Police will be receiving more than $2 million in funding to help in the battle against drugs in the state.

According to a news release, a branch of the Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), is granting nearly $42 million to state-level law enforcement to fight the illegal distribution and creation of drugs.

ISP will be using the funding to continue the department’s work on drug trafficking investigations along with the distribution of prescription opioids in the state.

Funding will be broken up into two parts.

Nearly $1.3 million will come through the Anti-Heroin Task Force Program (AHTF), which will provide three years of funding to agencies to support drug investigations and treatment admissions.

An additional $1 million will come from COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program (CAMP). This funding will also be used to support drug investigations.

Officials stated that drug overdoses and opioid-involved deaths continue to rise across the nation and that deaths from drug overdoses are up among women and men of all ages, and races, many involving opioids.

“More than 130 people die every day in the United States after overdosing on opioids,” officials said in a news release. “While methamphetamine continues to be one of the most commonly misused stimulant drugs in the world and is the drug that most contributes to violent crime.”