Why is alcohol and drug counseling an essential service offered at CAPS?
It’s just like any other university counseling center or health service. Alcohol is definitely a part of the college experience, and with it come some good things and some bad things. We want to be responsive to people who might need some help with an alcohol problem, or who maybe just need some education so they can avoid developing problems in the future. After a full semester at Duke, what do you see as your challenges? Just managing my time and trying to form a network to get educational messages about alcohol out there and to try to change some of the cultural beliefs and expectations around alcohol. It’s a challenge to try to get in there and change the culture so that overdrinking might someday be thought of as similar to smoking cigarettes-it’s not the socially acceptable thing that it was twenty years ago. Hopefully, by getting the message out there, we can change that culture, but it will be a gradual process. How is Duke like any other college or university when it comes to
