How a low-key pharmacy could help ease the opioid epidemic

Cordant Health Solutions, a Denver-based health care company, opened a controlled substance pharmacy in Indianapolis in October. Physicians send drug prescriptions for chronic pain electronically or via couriers to the pharmacy. After checking the state's prescription drug database and, if applicable, a patient's drug test results, the pharmacy delivers the medication to the patient's home or work. It is not a walk-in pharmacy. The doors are closed to the public. The address is not shared publicly.