Daily News | Philadelphia researcher honored for work on rural opioid crisis
Pennsylvania office of Rural Health named Glenn Sterner, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Abington as its Rural Health Hero of the Year for 2022. Photograph of Glenn at his office in Rydal Executive Plaza, Jenkintown, PA., on Wednesday, December 7, 2022.He lives in Philadelphia and his office overlooks a parking lot in suburban Montgomery County, but Glenn Sterner’s roots and his work are rural.
Sterner, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Abington, was given the 2022 Rural Health Hero of the Year Award by the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health for his work on the opioid epidemic, human trafficking, and other issues across the state. While Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood is an opioid epicenter visited by journalists from across the globe, some rural counties in the state have“It’s a little bit more hidden,” Sterner said in a recent interview at his office.
Sterner, through the Criminal Justice Research Center, is helping Pennsylvania counties, law enforcement agencies, and school districts maximize their share of the opioid settlement funding. Pennsylvania is set to receive $1 billion for drug treatment and prevention programs. “Rural places continue to have issues associated with access to treatment, but I am happy that Pennsylvania is seeing that as something we need to take on,” Sterner said.Sterner said he’s spent the most time working in Central and Southwestern Pennsylvania, along with Wyoming County, helping officials there plan ways to use the money.
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