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Abenaa Jones headshot with long, black, curly hair and orange short-sleeved dress with white pearl necklace.

People Who Use Drugs Need Access to Treatment, But They Also Need Love and Support

Apr 22, 2025

Editor’s note: Dr. Abenaa Jones is an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Health and Human Development, and Social Science Research Institute cofunded faculty member at Penn State University. Dr. Jones’ work focuses on the…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseMaternal HealthAlcoholHuman Development and Family Studies
COSSA Day 2025 Penn State delegation outside of the Capital Building in Washington, D.C.

Penn State social scientists support federal research funding at COSSA Day

Apr 15, 2025

A distinguished delegation of Penn State researchers traveled to Washington, D.C., March 24-25, to participate in the annual Consortium of Social Science Association's (COSSA) Social Science Advocacy Day. The event brought together social and behavioral scientists from across the nation to engage…
News Topics: COSSAFundingCollege of the Liberal ArtsCollege of Health and Human DevelopmentGeroscience and Dementia Prevention ConsortiumCSUA
CSUA cofund and CSUA director Glenn Sterner and Joel Segel standing next to Congresswoman Madeleine Dean.

CSUA attends Science Coalition's Capitol Hill Day

Apr 11, 2025

Last week, the Social Science Research Institute's (SSRI) Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction (CSUA) was on Capitol Hill for "The Science of Addiction & Mental Health" hosted by The Science Coalition.CSUADirector Joel Segel and SSRI cofunded faculty member Glenn Sterner spent time with…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseSSRI cofunds
2025 CSUA Conference flier with keynote

Psychiatry professor to present at annual substance-use and addiction conference

Apr 2, 2025

The Social Science Research Institute’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction will host its sixth annual conference, in-person and via Zoom on Monday, May 5, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Barron Innovation Hub at the University Park campus. The all-day event is free, but all in-person and…
News Topics: CSUASubstance Use
2025 CSUA Conference flier

Annual substance use and addiction conference to be held on May 5

Feb 28, 2025

The Social Science Research Institute’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction (CSUA) will host its sixth annual conference, in-person and via Zoom on Monday, May, 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Barron Innovation Hub at the University Park campus. The all-day event is free, but all in-…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseAddiction
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Emails with personal stories may be more likely to catch lawmakers’ attention

Feb 17, 2025

Email is one of the easiest ways to contact policymakers, especially for researchers who want to share their expertise on complex topics like substance use, but can an email effectively foster connection? Researchers at Penn State recently found that policymakers were more likely to engage with…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseEdna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research CenterPolicymakingResearch-to-Policy Collaboration
Sue Grigson, chair of the Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, answers a question.

Experts share research and best practices at Tenth Annual Addiction Conference

Nov 7, 2024

Penn State College of Medicine is marking a milestone of a decade of sharing expertise and best practices at the upcoming Tenth Annual Penn State Addiction Conference. The conference, scheduled for Nov. 11 and 12, is run by the Penn State Addiction Center for Translation with additional…
News Topics: Substance UseAddictionCSUA
Feeling connected to one’s school has a lot of benefits, but it also may be related to higher likelihood of binge drinking, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.

Students who feel more university connection may be more likely to binge drink

Oct 14, 2024

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Students who feel a sense of belonging at their university are more likely to binge drink than those who do not feel the same connection, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State, the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Oregon. In the study,…
News Topics: CSUAAlcoholMental Health
Michael McShane, right, assistant professor and internal medicine physician at Penn State Health, talks with second-year medical student Derek Barnett in the Penn State College of Medicine LION Mobile Clinic in Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania.

Bringing health care back to a rural Pennsylvania community

Aug 7, 2024

Snow Shoe Township is a small, rural community of around 1,700 people in central Pennsylvania that lies approximately 30 miles north of State College. A former coal mining town, Snow Shoe has seen an economic decline over the years. Then, in the span of one year starting in 2020, Snow Shoe lost its…
News Topics: Rural HealthRural SociologyDemographySSRI cofundsSSRI AffiliatesCSUA
Podcast with Dr. Aliza and Rob Turrisi

Teens and drinking: What parents need to know and how they can influence behavior​​​​​​​

Jul 30, 2024

Parents of teens and young adults can help keep their kids safer from the dangers of drinking, says Rob Turrisi, Penn State professor of biobehavioral health and SSRI cofund. Learn more in this new episode of the Raising Good Humans podcast with Dr. Aliza.    
News Topics: AlcoholTeensPodcastSSRI cofundsCSUASubstance Use
Group of CSUA Conference attendees check out posters.

Annual substance use conference examines cannabis use, future of tobacco

Jul 1, 2024

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The Social Science Research Institute’s (SSRI) Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction (CSUA) recently hosted its fifth annual conference in the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at the University Park campus.  Drawing over 140 attendees throughout the day including…
News Topics: CSUAConferenceSSRI cofundsSubstance UseAlcoholTobacco
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Fentanyl and COVID-19 pandemic reshaped racial profile of overdose deaths in US

May 1, 2024

For as long as statistics about opioid overdose deaths have been collected in the United States, white individuals have been much more likely to die than Black individuals of the same age. With the rapidly increasing rate of fentanyl overdoses in the late 2010s, that trend began to…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseOpioidsAddictionCollege of Health and Human Development
CSUA Conference flier

Annual Substance Use and Addiction Conference to be held on April 29

Feb 20, 2024

The Social Science Research Institute’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction will host its fifth annual conference, in-person and via Zoom on Monday, April 29, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Barron Innovation Hub. The all-day event is free, but all in-person and virtual…
News Topics: CSUASubstance Use
Young man with ball cap sitting with head down.

Suicidality among individuals with substance use disorders increased in 2020

Feb 13, 2024

Individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) were significantly more likely to consider, plan and attempt suicide than those without SUDs in 2020, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State. Adolescents and women with SUDs were also more likely to experience suicidality — the term for…
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseSuicideCollege of Health and Human Development
CSUA conference poster

CSUA 5th Annual Conference call for posters and research talks presentations

Jan 29, 2024

We invite you to present your work on substance use and addiction during our Research Talks and Poster Session for the CSUA 5th Annual Conference on Monday, April 29. We strongly encourage researchers, students, clinicians, community members and partner organizations to attend and participate in…
News Topics: CSUASubstance Use
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PSU researcher shares preliminary findings on how counties are spending opioid settlement funds

Jan 29, 2024

A Penn State professor is sharing preliminary findings from the Elevate Pennsylvania Initiative. It’s meant to maximize the impact of opioid settlement funds in the state. Pennsylvania is getting about $2 billion as part of nationwide settlements involving the opioid epidemic.…
News Topics: OpioidsSubstance UseCSUA
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SSRI names new unit directors

Jan 16, 2024

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute recently announced new directors for two of their units, the Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) and the Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction (CSUA), effective July 1. Xiaoxiao Bai and Emma Jane Rose will succeed Michele…
News Topics: CSUASLEICSSRI Director
Stethoscope with money

Penn State program to prevent substance use the focus of $2.5 million NIH grant

Jan 9, 2024

Penn State researchers have embarked on a five-year, $2.5 million project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study outcomes for adults who participated in the substance misuse prevention system known as PROSPER while they attended middle school. The system, PROmoting…
News Topics: Substance UseEdna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research CenterCSUAEIC
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Researchers to develop early warning system for emerging substance use threats

Jan 8, 2024

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 (EWS) for identifying and responding to emerging substance use threats such as the rise of…
News Topics: CSUASubstance Use

Storytelling saves lives: Reducing stigma is personal for Abington professor

Oct 2, 2023

Their personal and professional lives have placed Glenn Sterner and Erin Gallagher at the forefront of battling the stigma surrounding mental illness, substance use, addiction and vulnerable populations. The duo is the driving force behind the Oct. 12 performance of This Is My…
News Topics: Substance UseAddictionCSUADepressionSuicide
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Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction Seeking Director Position Applications

Sep 19, 2023

The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) is searching for a faculty member to lead the interdisciplinary Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction (CSUA). Applications for the position are open until October 1, 2023. For more information about the position, please visit CSUA’s website.  …
News Topics: CSUASubstance UseAddiction
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Next-day effects of heavy drinking on young adults the focus of NIH grant

Aug 14, 2023

Nausea, headaches and difficulty concentrating are just a few of the hangover symptoms that can besiege young adults who drink alcohol to excess. To gain a greater understanding of how heavy drinking impacts young adults, Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Penn State associate research professor of health…
News Topics: AlcoholSubstance UseCSUAEdna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center

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