Tackling substance addiction_ Aggie goals to deliver collegiate restoration program to Texas A&M

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) -Research present a big improve in substance abuse on faculty campuses nationwide, adversely affecting educational efficiency, dangerous or harmful behaviors, and in some circumstances critical harm or dying.

Based on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, greater than 100,000 people within the U.S. died from a drug-involved overdose in 2021, together with illicit medicine and prescription opioids.

Efforts are at the moment underway to ascertain a program at Texas A&M College to assist college students fighting substance abuse and habit.

The drive behind this initiative stems from private tragedy. Angie Rogers, an Aggie, and mom, skilled the devastating lack of her son, Brandon “Bubba” Rogers, in 2015 on account of a drug overdose. Sadly, this tragic incident is just not an remoted occasion, because the variety of lives misplaced to drug-related fatalities continues to rise yearly.

Brandon Rogers (Angie Rogers)

“I hate that he’s a statistic,” expressed Rogers. “In 2021, it was over 107,000 lives misplaced in only a few brief years.”

Angie says Brandon’s battle with habit started at an early age. He sought remedy and overcame his battles however later relapsed. Angie believes that if had Brandon had entry to extra specialised restoration applications he may have beat habit.

“We’re altering the trajectory of scholars’ lives with applications like this and I really feel strongly that had I had my son in a restoration highschool or if he had been in a collegiate restoration program when he went to school I believe he’d be alive right now,” mentioned Angie.

Consultants say substances like alcohol, marijuana, and prescription capsules have more and more gained recognition on faculty campuses nationwide, posing a big problem to scholar well-being. It’s exactly this development that fuels Rogers’ dedication to deliver a collegiate restoration program to Texas A&M.

Kevin Doyle, President and CEO on the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate College of Dependancy Research (KBTX)

“It’s a spot the place college students who discover themselves fighting extreme consuming or drug use can search assist and obtain assist,” mentioned Rogers.

Kevin Doyle, President and CEO of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate College of Dependancy Research, one of many nation’s high habit remedy facilities, notes a shift in college responses to college students coping with habit.

“Prior to now, the final response was disciplinary, usually resulting in expulsion or sending college students to remedy. Nonetheless, we should now contemplate the best way to assist a scholar who’s in restoration,” mentioned Doyle.

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Doyle says that many college students are actively looking for universities with specialised applications addressing substance abuse and habit.

“College students have gotten increasingly educated and so they have expectations about what their faculty or college will supply to them,” Doyle added.

Angie and Brandon Rogers (KBTX)

Whereas Angie can not deliver Brandon again, she believes as an Aggie and mom she is named to assist make a distinction when a necessity arises.

“I hate that I misplaced my son. It’s the worst ache conceivable, however I’m grateful that God has supplied me a possibility to make the most of this ache for a significant goal,” expressed Rogers.

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