Alcohol Intoxication

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Health Services has developed a program that encourages health seeking behaviors by campus staff and friends who come in contact with intoxicated students. This "Safe Haven" approach focuses on physical and emotional support first and realizes that although there are potential legal consequences for the intoxicated student, safety comes first.

Intoxicated students that present to Health Services are evaluated and a brief history including amount, type and time of alcohol ingestion is taken. A breathalyzer test is preformed. This assessment determines the care the student receives.

Student may be discharged or may remain in Health Services for monitoring. Severely intoxicated students may be transported to local emergency rooms for acute care as needed for patient safety. Students remaining at Health Services will be assessed periodically and discharged from Health Services when they meet the predetermined discharge criteria.

If a student has an elevated breathalyzer test (above 0.16 or higher) or are treated more than once in an academic year for excessive alcohol consumption, they will be referred to counseling.

At least two out of every five U.S. college students regularly binge drink, resulting each year in approximately fourteen hundred student deaths, a distressing number of assaults and rapes, a shameful amount of vandalism, and countless cases of academic suicide.(College Alcohol Study, Harvard researcher Henry Wechsler, Ph.D, 2001)

The mission of Health Services with regard to the intoxicated student is to maintain physical/emotional health and safety while promoting healthy lifestyle choices and reducing risk-taking behavior. We are only a phone call away - 872-3250.