A newly awarded $1 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant will allow a group of multidisciplinary researchers at Penn State, in collaboration with Georgia Tech, to develop an early warning system for identifying and responding to emerging substance use threats such as the rise of fentanyl overdoses in our communities.
两份共计50美元的礼物,000 are kicking off an international research project led by 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校 professor Pierce Salguero into the diagnosis and treatment of meditation sickness, a largely unknown occurrence in practitioners of intensive meditation.
Penn State 阿宾顿 senior Angelea Francesco presented her research on 宾西法尼亚 adolescents with gender dysphoria at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health scientific symposium, where she shared her findings that transgender youth describe their gender in various ways but have a clear idea of who they are and are certain of the medical care they want.
黛安·罗森鲍姆, assistant professor of psychology at 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校, explains that weight bias or negative attitudes toward higher weight is a key risk factor for mental health challenges including eating disorder symptoms, 抑郁症, 消极的身体形象.
Criminal justice data is under-utilized in research despite its high relevance and unique role in the opioid crisis, according to a recent study by Penn State researchers using crime incident data. The study found that opioid-related crime incident rates were positively associated with rates of opioid-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and overdose mortality.
A new Penn State-led project is educating coroners, 医学检查, and others in the death-certifier community in 宾西法尼亚 about the reporting of substances associated with accidental overdose.
Penn State researchers provide informed commentary on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the criminal justice system (CJS), focusing on its efforts to contain the spread of the virus through the three core components of the CJS — courts, 修正, and policing – as well as opportunities going forward. 阅读更多, visit the "Insights from Experts" website — a partnership of Penn State's Social Science Research Institute and the Center for Health Care and Policy Research.
比尔罗文, program director of the Center for Counseling Services at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Schuylkill, spoke about counseling and resources pertinent to the disease of addiction.
在他的主题演讲中. 格伦多, assistant professor of Criminal Justice at 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校, provided an overview of the opioid crisis from the early 2000s until today. “这是一种疾病. This is not a moral failing,” he said.
Nonmedical opioid users were more likely to say they began abusing opioids after friends and family members offered them the drugs, 据研究人员称. About 56 percent of the interviewees said they began using the painkillers recreationally first.
