Dr. Gillian Beauchamp, emergency medical physician and toxicologist at the Lehigh Valley Health Network, delivered the final expert presentation of the day. Dr. Beauchamp works with an emergency room team and EMS professionals to treat overdose victims. “The idea,” says Beauchamp, “is that hope happens at a place like a hospital. It happens in an emergency department.”
Bill Rowan, program director of the Center for Counseling Services at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Schuylkill, spoke about counseling and resources pertinent to the disease of addiction.
In his keynote address, Dr. Glenn Sterner, assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Abington, provided an overview of the opioid crisis from the early 2000s until today. “This is a disease. This is not a moral failing,” he said.
Adriana Vagelli was watching a story unfold on a local television newscast. “It was about graves from an old cemetery accidentally being dug up in Old City (Philadelphia),” the Penn State Abington senior said. “They wanted to identify the people who were buried there. I was interested and wanted to get involved.”
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor Steven H. Korman with the Alumni Fellow Award on Oct. 23. Korman is one of 16 Penn Staters who will receive the award, the highest honor given by the alumni association.
Penn State Abington's first student Green Team ECO headed out to the organic co-op Weaver's Way in Ambler to help the local Environmental Advisory Committee with their cigarette butt clean up day. They picked up 2,279 cigarettes, keeping them out of waterways and the mouths of wild animals. Weaver's Way treated the students to an organic, local food lunch.
