Bill Calls For Tougher Sentences For Drug Dealers If Users Die

Last updated on Wednesday, January 31, 2018

(INDIANAPOLIS) - Fatal overdoses would mean longer prison sentences for drug dealers under a bill passed by the Indiana House.

The bill is among several requested by Governor Holcomb to fight the opioid epidemic.

The bill takes the most serious possible drug dealing charge and goes one level higher if the user dies.

For cocaine, meth and opioids, that would mean an extra 20-to-40-year prison term. Less serious drugs could carry as little as three years.

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