Helping prevent student binge drinking and DUIs
Our expert guide is designed to help students over 21 understand how to keep themselves, and their peers, safe when drinking. It kicks off by answering 10 of the most common questions students ask about alcohol. There’s a further section dedicated to helping them to avoid drunk driving, and includes a discussion about how colleges are working to prevent binge drinking.
College Students Guide to Avoiding Drug and Alcohol Abuse
According to Addiction Center, full-time college students are twice as likely to abuse alcohol and drugs than those who don’t. This sort of risk is what drove our team to create a comprehensive guide that breaks down the situations where students may encounter substance abuse, describes the terms and lingos used on campuses for students to be aware of and provides advice on how to help a friend overcome substance abuse. You can explore the entire guide above.
Get Help Now: Let’s Work Together!
Find Bucks County addiction treatment and recovery programs near you. Locate helpful phone numbers and facility listings for persons or loved ones seeking care and recovery from substance abuse in Pennsylvania. Get Help Now: Let’s Work Together! is a Pennsylvania mobile web resource of information for persons seeking drug, alcohol or gambling addiction programs and other services that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime. Join Pennsylvanians living free, or in recovery, from the disease of drug, alcohol and gambling addiction, resulting in safer, healthier, more productive and fulfilling lives.
Shatterproof
Shatterproof is a national organization committed to protecting our children from addiction to alcohol or other drugs and ending the stigma and suffering of those affected by this disease.
Because I Love You
Because I Love You has been helping families in crisis for 32 years, serving more than 700,000 parents and at-risk youth across the U.S. and Canada. Working together on behavioral problems, families of children, teens, and adult children have found hope and positive change. It is a resource to find a Parent Support Group or Youth Support Group near you. Meetings are open to the public, and there are no membership requirements or dues.
How to Save a Life Foundation
Located in Warminster, PA, Marti Hottenstein created the How to Save a Life Foundation after her son, Karl, died of a drug overdose in October 2006. after being refused treatment at an in-patient facility. The Foundation provides resources and services for those looking to get help for drug addiction.
Bucks County Drug & Alcohol Commission, Inc.
The mission of the Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission, Inc. (BCDAC, Inc.) is to reduce the use of tobacco and eliminate the use of illegal drugs and the abuse, misuse of and addiction to alcohol and other drugs. As the state and locally designated Single County Authority (SCA) for alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, this agency works continuously to ensure the provision of a comprehensive and balanced continuum of quality prevention, intervention and treatment services for the county.
600 Louis Dr, Suite 102A
Warminster, PA 18974
Phone: 215-773-9313
Fax: 215-956-9939
Email: dwrosati@co.bucks.pa.us
Overdose Free PA
Drugfree.org
Offers parents information on how to secure prescription medications and many other valuable tools in regards to drug-free assistance.
Please click here for a list of resources provided by the Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission, Inc.
Help.org
➡ Guide to heroin addiction
➡ Guide to heroin rehab