Tech’s center on addictions shares data on campus treatment efforts

Data from Texas Tech’s Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery are used extensively in a book about treatment provided on many college campuses for student drinkers and drug users.  More than 80 percent of college students drink. A third do drugs. The book “Substance Abuse Recovery in College,” published by Spring, is the first book to detail collegiate recovery communities and the services they provide.  In Tech’s case, the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery provides peer-based support and academic services for more than 100 students in recovery. Eighty percent have graduated and only seven percent have suffered relapses. Tech has helped replicate its curriculum at schools such as the University of Mississippi and Vanderbilt University. Center officials are helping establish programs elsewhere, including at the universities of  Connecticut, Michigan and Alabama.