The University of California’s student government wants every campus to have a collegiate recovery program.
If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news.Four years clean from methamphetamine and with five associate degrees in hand from a community college in California’s Central Coast, Cheech Raygoza began his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley in 2022 feeling like he was in prison — again.
The University Office of the President maintains that every campus has some kind of drug prevention, intervention and treatment program. But student advocates say the collegiate recovery programs are unique and provide an important outlet for students who need a nuanced approach to vanquishing their drug dependencies. The first was founded at Brown University in 1977. Today,
Raygoza put himself in detox for 14 days. His clean date is Aug. 3, 2018. He’s been drug- and alcohol-free ever since. “That’s something I love about ,” Raygoza said. “They meet you where you’re at and there’s no judgment.”, for helping him feel integrated on campus. Attending church and his faith in God are vital to his recovery, too, he added. Sometimes his fiancé comes to visit and attends a meeting with him. He aspires to earn a doctorate in education and teach youth in his hometown.
“That’s why I say I meet people where they’re at, because they might not be ready,” Lake said. “And if I actually said, ‘You need to quit now,’ they’re going to get mad at me.” But she also feels the limits of the program without a full-time coordinator. “We’re the best kept secret on campus, and we don’t want to be,” she said. Without a full-time coordinator, there’s no one to market the program on campus, where hundreds of student and community groups compete for attention from the campus’s 40,000 students through leaflets, live events and other outreach.
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