How to help

If you know a student who exhibits any of the signs listed above, you can help by doing the following:

• Talk to student when she/he is sober
• Relay concerns and avoid judging
• Describe to student specific behavior you have observed
• Talk to student about potential and actual consequences of behavior
• Talk to student in group format, if one or more persons express concern
• Contact Health Resources and/or Counseling and Human Development for tips on how to intervene
• Provide student with campus resources (names, phone numbers, places, etc.)
• Adapted from "Making the Link-Faculty and Prevention" The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention