Colleges push for services for recovering addicts

AP ^ | 3/5/05

[Borderline44]

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (AP) -- Living in a college dorm can mean little privacy and exposure to a lot of booze. That can make it a tough place for young adults who are in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.

[FormerACLUmember]

In today's totalitarian campus environment, we desparately need Democrats Anonymous.

Personal inventory begins with: "I admit that I am a complete *sshole.' "I admit that I am powerless to Democrat Party propaganda and intellectually brainless political beliefs."

I'll see you at the meetings....

[annyokie]

"I think all universities have an obligation to their student body to provide services that will help them stay in school," said Finch. "It's not just an obligation, it's a wise decision as far as retention is concerned."

I agree. I have counseled troubled teens and people, places and things indeed lead to relapse. Being surrounded by corousing boozy youths is a tough deal when you've been there done that. Recovery is harder at 22 than it is at 52.

[Zunt Toad]

I frequently contemplate taking up extreme binge drinking to help resolve the cognative dissonance between the reality I perceive, and the polemic crap coming out of the faculty!

[radiohead]

My son stayed in a 'substance free' dorm at Michigan. He didn't have a substance problem, but didn't want to be around people who smoked, were drunks or did drugs. His roommates were of a similar temperment.

Religious, decent but not religious, and some ROTC kids opted for spaces in these dorms to avoid the problems that kids can get into at the regular dorms.

Having gone to the same school in the 70s, I know what it's like to live w/several hundred drunk, dope smoking, 19 year olds. It ain't pretty.

[annyokie]

Good for your son and bravo for the college to provide such a dorm!

There were girls in my (Catholic) college who regularly whined to me about their roomies having sex in their presence in their room, but didn't have the stones to complain to their RA about it for fear of being deemed a "straight".

Sad.