Nonmedical opioid users were more likely to say they began abusing opioids after friends and family members offered them the drugs, according to researchers. About 56 percent of the interviewees said they began using the painkillers recreationally first.
A Penn State Abington faculty member was instrumental in securing three grants totaling more than $2.7 million to combat the opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania and nationwide.
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic.
Pregnant women often rely on two identities -- a pregnant self and a non-pregnant self -- to help them navigate the profound psychological and physiological effects that pregnancy has on their body image, according to a Penn State Abington researcher.
Inc. magazine named Steve Hynes' firm MRO to its Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America last year. He gives back to Penn State Abington by helping prepare students for careers through businesses challenges.
