{"id":8092,"date":"2018-01-09T05:50:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2018-01-19T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T21:11:11","slug":"8092","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/09\/8092\/","title":{"rendered":"College Recovery Programs, such as StepUP\u00ae,  Multiply Amid Opioid Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/01\/90.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8093 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/01\/90-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"pill bottle of OxyContin \" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/01\/90-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/01\/90-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/01\/90-1024x556.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/01\/90.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Amid the opioid crisis, recovery programs on college campuses are quickly multiplying, with over 100 campuses across the country. Augsburg University\u00a0is\u00a0one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students like Neil King, who is\u00a0addicted <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to painkillers,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> now wants to recover and keep his life\u00a0on track. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King heard about Augsburg University&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">StepUP\u00ae<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0program from his hospital roommate during recovery and decided to apply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen King first moved in to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">StepUP\u00ae<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he was in a perpetual state of crisis. He stabilized, got used to being back in school and worked through the initial difficulties of recovery with the help of his counselor. The staff also helped him get necessities; he had shown up to school with only a duffel bag and two trash bags filled with clothes.\u201d Explains Sanchez on the article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King will be graduating in just a few months with a degree in clinical psychology. He thanks his recovery to the community he was able to find\u00a0at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">StepUP\u00ae<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/12\/31\/colleges-offer-recovery-housing-in-response-to-opioid-crisis-252291\">Read the full article on the Politico website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the opioid crisis, recovery programs on college campuses are quickly multiplying, with over 100 campuses across the country. Augsburg University\u00a0is\u00a0one of them. Students like Neil King, who is\u00a0addicted to painkillers, now wants to recover and keep his life\u00a0on track. King heard about Augsburg University&#8217;s\u00a0StepUP\u00ae\u00a0program from his hospital roommate during recovery and decided to apply. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8112,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}