Alcohol & Substance Use Resource Center

Student Wellness empowers students to make the safest & healthiest decisions regarding any potential substance consumption. We focus on reducing high-risk behaviors, that may affect the individual student or the Carolina community as a whole. We encourage and support safe, legal, and responsible actions.

Student Wellness Covers the Continuum 

Student Wellness uses a comprehensive approach to health and well-being. Our strategies range from working with students on an individual level to influencing and managing the campus and community environments that impact student decision making and actions. Student Wellness has adopted a non-judgmental, risk-mitigation and harm reduction approach to preventing or reducing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, which aims to reduce the potential negative consequences of higher-risk alcohol and other substance use in the Carolina Community.

Screening:

E-checkup assessments are anonymous, interactive online tools that provide personalized information and feedback, while helping you learn more about your particular substance consumption patterns, compare that and any related behaviors to other Carolina students and norms on campus, and connect to helpful campus resources if desired.

Both programs are confidential, free, and available 24/7.

Promotion:

• Educational programs and workshops for student groups and organizations. Request a workshop.
• Carolina After Dark (CAD): Late night programs and events, Thursday-Saturday. 
• Policy development. Check out UNC Campus Alcohol policy and Housing's Community Living Standards. Read about state and local laws on our Healthy Heels blog.
• A community-wide social norms campaign aimed to create a healthier campus norm around alcohol by providing candid, data-driven information.

Prevention:

• AlcoholEdu online alcohol education course
• Assessment and research, including the Core Survey.
• Campus Community Coalition: Partnership and initiatives to reduce substance use, including data collection and policy development.

Counseling:

• BASICS: a non-confrontational program to help students identify risks associated with their alcohol and/or drug use and ways to eliminate or reduce these risks. 
• Individual Counseling: are you questioning your relationship to substances (alcohol or other substances) and looking for a confidential, supportive counseling experience to explore? Coordinate a meeting with a licensed clinician to see if our services are a good fit for you, or to assist you in connecting with other off campus resources.

Recovery:

• The Carolina Recovery Program provides an accepting, nurturing environment where students in recovery can thrive personally, shine academically, and develop enduring resiliency for continued success.