By: Amanda Surber
Colorado State University students, like any other students in college around the country, enjoy partying. Some students party with music and dancing, while other turn to drugs and alcohol to fulfill their partying needs.
Getting in trouble costs a lot of money, but understanding the effects of drugs and alcohol on one’s body can save students some green. The Drugs, Alcohol and You (DAY) Programs that are available to students at CSU are a valuable resource that few students know about, unless they learn the hard way.
These programs can be found at http://www.day.colostate.edu/ and they offer helpful tips and resources that can help out a student or someone they know who is struggling with a problem related to drug and alcohol abuse.
The DAY programs look at a student’s personal history and they take different background situations into consideration. According to their website, “Regardless of a person's history of use, the DAY Programs office has a service designed to meet that need.”
“I like that they give students who have screwed up badly a second chance and get them back on track,” said sophomore history major Jesse Briley. “They try and help the students out as much as possible, but they also need students to be honest about their problem to provide the best help.”
“There is no penalty for being truthful on the instrument. In fact, the services are most effective when students provide accurate information concerning their use,” said in the program’s homepage.
Many students have not heard of the DAY programs that are available at CSU. “I was unaware that these types of programs were even available on our campus and I think it is very strange that they would not be more well-known to students,” said freshman graphic design major Jacquie Altman.
This is an issue because students do not know where to look for help and this program is widely unknown. DAY programs need to put out their information so that more students can take advantage of the resources that they provide.
“If I knew about this sooner, I could have a had a place to turn to when I was dealing with my roommate who had a problem with alcohol,” said Altman.
Incoming freshman need to be educated so that they know for the rest of their stay at CSU, that they have somewhere to go for help or to get questions answered about drugs and alcohol.
“I just transferred here from out-of-state and I would like to have been told about this program during orientation but I was not,” said freshman undeclared major Trisha Harrell.
DAY could also increase awareness by putting up flyers in the dorms or by running an advertisement in the Rocky Mountain Collegian.
Junior human development and family studies major Jerney Mockerman said, “I wasn’t even aware that a program like this existed and I’ve been here for almost three years, but it sounds like it would be very helpful to many students on our campus”.
This program needs to make itself known, if it is going to help out students and give them the chances and resources they can use to beat back problems that come with drugs and alcohol.
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