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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
iPhone returns to B.C. owner after eight months of seafaring from mainland to Gulf Islands Hunter Hoffman lost his phone last July when the dingy he was in capsized on Coquitlam River; it washed up on a Mayne Island beach eight months later.
Author of the article: Gordon McIntyre
Publishing date: Mar 09, 2021 • March 11, 2021 • 3 minute read • Hunter Hoffman shows a photograph of his lost phone on his replacement phone at his home in Port Coquitlam. Lost while he was rafting on Coquitlam River, it washed ashore on Mayne Island eight month later. Photo by Arlen Redekop /PNG
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When their raft flipped and threw its three occupants into the Coquitlam River last July, the kids were battered a bit by the turbulence and rocks, but they were OK.
“We were on rapids about 10 minutes from Lions Park and the dinghy flipped,” recalled 16-year-old Hunter, the youngest of eight children in the Hoffman family. His young niece and a buddy of his were also thrown into the water. “I missed my contact information the most,” Hunter said of the phone he thought he had lost forever. The iPhone 7 Plus was inside a watertight case so the family returned to look for it, albeit with almost no hope. After scouring the area downstream, they gave up. On Saturday, eight months after it went missing, Hunter’s mom Angela received a text from Mayne Island saying the phone had washed ashore in Piggott Bay, where the current comes down Navy Channel and sometimes swirls around the bay.
A teenager who lost his iPhone while white water rafting in British Columbia was reunited with the device when it washed up on an island eight months later.
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“It’s like a crawly feeling inside,” says Judy . “You get hot, then chilled, and you feel like you want to run away.” The 57-year-old has short dark-grey hair and a haunted expression. She’s breathless and sits with her right leg balanced up on her walking stick, rocking it back and forth as she speaks.
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Judy explains that she suffers from constant, debilitating pain: arthritis, back problems, fibromyalgia and daily migraines. She was a manager at a major electronics company until 2008, but can no longer work. She often hurts too much even to make it out of bed.