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Illicit Online Pharmacies

Algorithm aims to alert consumers before they use illicit online pharmacies

Dr. Glenn Sterner stands on stage as he delivers a speech. There is a slide behind him reviewing drug overdose deaths in the U.S. from 1999-2017

Opioid conference improves understanding, links community to addiction resources

Dr. Glenn Sterner delivers a presentation examining the opioid conference since the late 1990s and early 2000s.

'Understanding the Opioid Crisis,' by Glenn Sterner

Penn State Health grows efforts to combat opioid crisis

'Reducing Opioid Stigma' to be held April 17 at Penn State DuBois

HDFS panelists

More than 125 attend Penn State Scranton workshop on the opioid epidemic

A woman stands at a lectern delivering a speech. A screen with a PowerPoint presentation is in the background.

Penn State mounts broad attack on opioid addiction in Pennsylvania

A small bottle and covered syringe needle are placed on a piece of paper with typed words that include “Naloxone, “medication” and “opioids.”

The Medical Minute: Why Naloxone rescue kits are now being prescribed

Stephanie Lanza

Penn State launches new consortium to combat the opioid crisis

Battling Opioids

WPSU to address opioid addiction, recovery with special programming

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College students may face pressures from opioid epidemic's secondary effects

Opioid epidemic

Opioid epidemic to be topic of April 6 panel presentation

A syringe and a vial of pills

Penn State University Park police to carry naloxone beginning Feb. 23

stone hand and poppy pods

Weather patterns, farm income, other factors, may be influencing opioid crisis