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Dr. Gillian Beauchamp stands on stage in front of a projector slide identifying various areas of the brain triggered by addiction.

Dr. Gillian Beauchamp discusses the way addiction alters users' brain chemistry.

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.”