Tackling intrastate policy surveillance challenges in Indiana
The design, interpretation, and enforcement of county and municipal laws significantly affect local public health. But accessing those laws can be difficult. A study by Indiana University researchers found that unlike Indiana state laws, which are collected, catalogued by topic, and kept regularly updated in centralized, publicly available electronic databases, laws in about half of all Indiana counties were not online, or if they were online, they weren t necessarily up to date. This means that in Indiana, there is no comprehensive, up-to-date central source that can be used to study how different local governments respond to similar health-related concerns.
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The design, interpretation, and enforcement of county and municipal laws significantly affect local public health. But accessing those laws can be difficult.
A study by Indiana University researchers found that unlike Indiana state laws, which are collected, catalogued by topic, and kept regularly updated in centralized, publicly available electronic databases, laws in about half of all Indiana counties were not online, or if they were online, they weren t necessarily up to date. This means that in Indiana, there is no comprehensive, up-to-date central source that can be used to study how different local governments respond to similar health-related concerns.
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Methadone research could help babies exposed to opioids in utero
A study by researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and the Gill Center for Biomolecular Science at IU Bloomington found that in-utero exposure to methadone in mice could negatively affect developmental milestones related to proper functioning of the brain’s sensory and motor systems. The findings could one day lead to new treatment options that reduce long-term damage to human babies from in-utero opioid exposure.
“The opioid epidemic has led to a growing number of babies being born to mothers who used opioids throughout pregnancy, but little is known of the biological mechanisms that underlie prenatal, opioid-exposure-induced, long-term negative consequences,” said study lead Brady Atwood, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the IU School of Medicine. “Our findings revealed a disruption in physical, behavioral and neuronal development in prenatal
One of Indiana s Grand Challenges initiatives is launching two courses designed to help reduce the stigma surrounding substance use disorder. The courses, which are part of the Responding to the Addic