Meeting the Needs of Students in Recovery

Meeting the Needs of Students in Recovery: In its 2002 report on college drinking, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism describes U.S. college campuses as supporting a culture of drinking. Staying clean and sober in an environment where drinking and, to a lesser extent, other drug use is an accepted behavior presents real challenges to students who are in recovery from alcohol and/or drug addiction. The collegiate recovery school movement began with the development of school-based recovery support services at Brown University in 1977 and Rutgers University in 1983. Programs at Texas Tech University’s Center for the Study of Addictions (1986) and Augsburg College’s StepUP Program (1997) further advanced campus recovery services. Other campuses have taken steps to meet the needs of students in recovery. Currently 15 campuses are members of the Association of Recovery Schools.

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