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Headshot of Glenn Sterner with short brown hair, white shirt, red, white, and blue tie, and blue jacket.

Sterner honored by Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health for work on opioid crisis, human trafficking

Glenn Sterner, a Social Science Research Institute co-funded faculty member through the Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction and assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Abington, received the 2022 Rural Health Hero of the Year Award by the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health for…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseRural HealthRural CommunitiesOpioidsHuman Trafficking
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Sterner contributes to article about opioid settlement funds reaching rural communities 

Glenn Sterner , a Social Science Research Institute co-funded faculty member and assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Abington, contributed to an article on CNN and KHN about how opioid settlement funds are often shortchanged by rural communities. The article mentions that…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseAddictionOpioids

Ensuring fair distribution of the $1 billion+ opioid settlement in Pennsylvania

To ensure fair and impartial distribution of the $1.07 billion that was awarded to Pennsylvania as part of 2021’s massive settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors, a team of interdisciplinary researchers from Penn State worked with counties across the commonwealth to develop the…
News Topics: OpioidsSubstance UseEvidence-to-Impact CollaborativeCenter for Health Care Policy Research
Louisa Holmes

Holmes interviewed on WTAJ

SSRI cofund Louisa Holmes was recently interviewed on WTAJ about how her research on lack of naloxone is linked to increased overdose deaths in smaller Pennsylvania communities. Policymakers may wish to consider using opioid settlement funds to expand access to naloxone in communities, says Holmes.
News Topics: SSRI cofundsOpioidsSubstance Use
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Substance use disorder summit jumpstarts the discourse on stigma reduction

The Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction’s (CSUA) hosted the first annual Substance Use Disorder Stigma Reduction Summit recently at the HUB-Robeson Center in University Park. Organized by the Substance Use Stigma Reduction Collaborative, the event brought in researchers, practitioners and…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseOpioidsStigma Summit
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Lack of naloxone led to increased overdose deaths in rural Pa., study finds

Pennsylvania has one of the highest rates of opioid overdose in the nation, and, according to Penn State researchers, one’s chances of surviving that overdose can depend on where the person lives. Using data from the Pennsylvania Overdose Information Network from the years 2018-20 and American…
News Topics: CSUAOpioidsSubstance Use
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Stigma work by researchers showcased at Shatterproof’s Addiction Stigma Summit

Two faculty members at Penn State Berks, Jennifer Murphy, associate professor and chair of the criminal justice department, and Brenda Russell, professor of psychology, had their stigma work with students showcased at Shatterproof’s Stigma of Addiction Summit earlier this summer. Shatterproof is a…
News Topics: CSUAOpioidsSubstance Use
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Prevention is our best — and most underrated — weapon against opioids

By Diana Fishbein for The Hill The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented “syndemic” — multiple simultaneous crises — that has ravaged communities across the nation. COVID-19 took the country by storm, causing more than 1 million deaths, economic devastation and unimaginable suffering.…
News Topics: Substance AbuseOpioids
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How stigma acts as a barrier to overcoming the opioid crisis

The United States is in the midst of a significant, decades-long opioid epidemic, with more than 2.6 million Americans meeting the criteria for opioid use disorder (OUD). Opioid-related overdoses have also been on the rise, along with stigma related to OUD and is one of the biggest barriers to…
News Topics: OpioidsSubstance Use
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Penn State team leads effort to prevent youth substance misuse in PA

A team of Penn State experts from Evidence-based Implementation and Intervention Support (EPIS) is leading the five-year Opioid Misuse Prevention Project (OMPP) to support community-based partnerships throughout Pennsylvania to help prevent substance misuse and promote healthy development in young…
News Topics: PRCOpioidsSubstance UseAddiction
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Examining the opioid epidemic through the lens of crime data

The opioid overdose epidemic in the United States remains a critically important public health issue that continues to worsen as time goes on. The estimated death toll in 2021 has reached the historical high of 100,000 overdose deaths from all drugs and over 75,000 deaths from opioid overdoses. We…
News Topics: CSUAOpioidsSubstance Use
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Youth with mental illness, substance-misuse histories at risk of opioid misuse

Opioid misuse is a devastating problem in the U.S. and a leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults. Penn State College of Medicine researchers found young people with certain mental health conditions and histories of substance misuse may have an increased risk of being diagnosed…
News Topics: OpioidsSubstance UseCSUA
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Education project to help improve data on drug overdose deaths

A new Penn State-led project is educating coroners, medical examiners, and others in the death certifier community in Pennsylvania about the reporting of substances associated with accidental overdose. The project, known as the Death Certifier Education Project, is a collaborative effort with the…
News Topics: Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice Research CenterCSUASubstance UseOpioidsAddiction
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Can mindful yoga reduce opioid dependence?

With more than 100 people dying from opioid overdoses each day in the U.S., new approaches to treating opioid-use disorders are needed. Emma Rose, assistant research professor with Penn State's Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, is leading a study that adds twice-weekly mindfulness-…
News Topics: OpioidsCSUASubstance UseAddiction
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Impacts of the pandemic on opioid-related drug overdose

Opioid-related drug overdose is a leading cause of death and injury in the United States. When we consider individuals who use opioids, social factors including poor access to healthcare, unstable housing and employment, and social isolation may double as risk factors for infectious disease…
News Topics: COVID-19OpioidsSubstance Abuse
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Impacts of the coronavirus on student athlete substance abuse

College is a well-known risk environment for problematic alcohol use and substance abuse. In this post, Katherine McLean, associate professor of criminal justice at Penn State Greater Allegheny, outlines why student athletes may be at particular risk for higher levels of alcohol consumption and…
News Topics: Substance AbuseOpioidsCriminal Justice
EIC Podcast #5

EIC Podcast on the opioid crisis is now available

The fifth episode of the new Evidence-to-Impact Podcast features a discussion with Glenn Sterner, PhD, assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Abington, and Stephen Forzato, deputy chief for tStatewide Drug Initiatives at the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General about reducing the…
News Topics: EIC PodcastSubstance AbuseOpioids
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Registration open for fifth annual Penn State Addiction Symposium on Dec. 10

Registration is open for Penn State Addiction Center for Translation’s fifth annual Penn State Addiction Symposium. This symposium will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 10 at Junker Auditorium, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. This symposium will feature preclinical and…
News Topics: CCSAAddictionOpioidsSymposiumPenn State ResearchCTSI
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Penn State, PA team up to promote treatments for substance abuse disorders

The opioid epidemic and larger problems of substance misuse continue to deeply impact communities across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the nation. In 2017, more than 70,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, with Pennsylvania ranking third with the highest rates of death due…
News Topics: OpioidsAddictionCCSAEvidence-to-Impact CollaborativePenn State ResearchSubstance Abuse
Glenn Sterner in tan suit presenting

Collaborative Community Service Conference offers opiate addiction resources

Penn State Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Hospital – Schuylkill collaborated to present “Opioids: The Crisis Next Door,” a free conference held on campus Sept. 19 that detailed the facts and signs of addiction, as well as the resources available to help community members affected by the epidemic. The…
News Topics: SSRIOpioidsAddictionCCSACriminal JusticeSubstance AbuseConference
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Why Social Science? - Because It Provides Empirical Answers to Critical Public Health Questions

By Jeni L. Burnette, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology & Sarah L. Desmarais, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, North Carolina State University What do the opioid and obesity epidemics have in common? For starters, they are both public health crises in which the disease model is used to…
News Topics: SSRIPsychologyObesityOpioidsPublic Health SciencesCCSAWhy Social Science?
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Abstracts can be submitted for fifth annual Penn State Addiction Symposium

The Penn State Addiction Center for Translation is accepting abstracts for consideration as poster and oral presentations at the center's fifth annual Penn State Addiction Symposium. Send a 250-word abstract, complete with title, author(s), affiliations and the presenter's email address, to PSACT@…
News Topics: CTSISymposiumAddictionOpioidsSubstance Abuse
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Schuylkill nursing professor researches impact of opioid addiction on families

Marianne Adam, associate teaching professor in the College of Nursing at Penn State Schuylkill, has been an asset to the Penn State nursing community, educating future nurses while researching substantial health issues ranging from palliative care, diabetes, and her current focus — the opioid…
News Topics: AddictionCCSASSRICollege of NursingOpioidsSubstance Abuse
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Training program available to recovering addicts

If you have a history of addiction recovery and want to help others, Penn State Shenango will host a Beaver campus Continuing Education course on “Certified Recovery Specialist Training” from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturdays, beginning Oct. 5 and ending Dec. 14, in Sharon Hall room 108 in downtown…
News Topics: Penn State ResearchAddictionOpioidsCCSASubstance Abuse
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Examining state policies governing opioid use and pregnancy

Opioid use disorders during pregnancy have risen at alarming rates in the U.S. in recent years, increasing the risks of preterm labor and delivery, poor fetal growth, prolonged hospital stays, maternal death and stillborn infants. Maternal opioid use can also result in neonatal abstinence syndrome…
News Topics: CCSASSRIOpioidsAddictionSubstance AbuseChild HealthPregnancy

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