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rinking and partying are a general stereotype about going to college. Students see in different forms of media that when they go to college, all they will be doing is partying with friends (and drinking).

Students at the Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities break that stereotype.

Just to have a space where the university says we believe enough in recovering people that we will create a space for them to gather, to connect with other people who are struggling with recovery and addiction, (that) is important.

— Gerorge Comiskey Associate Director of External Relations Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities In 1986, Carl Anderson started the center for students who wanted to help fellow students get hours to become substance abuse counselors. Since then, the center has developed into a safe place where people from all over the Lubbock community and surrounding areas can come and not be judged for their pasts.

George Comiskey, the asso-

ciate director of external relations at the Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities, said alcoholics and people dealing with substance abuse and eating disorders are the students most represented in the center. However, there are other students in the center dealing with sex addiction or gambling addictions.

To be a part of the center, students have to be at least a year into their recovery, Comiskey said. But, recovery can look different ways to different people.

“We ask that a person have a year of recovery or coming up on a year of recovery in their first semester with us,” Comiskey said. “(This is) so they have a better part of a year to get their head cleared and to learn some new life skills and some coping mechanisms that will allow them to be successful in our community. We also don’t want them to jeopardize the recovery of the people who are here.”

Comiskey said the requirement for a year was established because before one year, people do not tend to socialize and interact in healthy ways.

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Society stigmatizes substance abuse

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In today’s society, the issue of drug addiction is stigmatized and not treated with proper care.

Often, addiction is not thought of as an illness, Kevin Thompson, director of evaluation for the Permian Basin Regional Council on Alcohol and Drug Addiction, said. Although millions of Americans struggle with substance abuse in some capacity, the threshold for

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addiction is not limited to just drugs.

“Caffeine, for example, is just as much of an addiction for some as hard drugs because it’s mind-altering in nature,” Thompson said. “It may not be as debilitating as say, heroin, but because it affects your brain chemistry in a certain way, it can create a dependency for some people.”

Thompson, a Tech alumnus, said some substances are stigmatized because they are illegal. However, that does not make legal substances like Adderall, Codeine or OxyContin less likely to be abused.

“Addiction is a disease, and while personal choices can exacerbate the issue, that doesn’t mean we should treat people as anything less than patients,” he said. “Not only does treatment for these issues work, but preventative measures also work.”

Preventative steps like providing a curriculum for young students and encouraging doctors to spread awareness of the health risks involved with substance

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The Association of Students About Service is an organization based in the Center for the Study of Addiction & Recovery at Texas Tech.

According to the ASAS page on the Tech website, the organization’s official purpose is to provide an opportunity for students at Tech to enhance their recovery from addictive disorders through fellowship and service.

Terry Don Mooney, the parliamentarian of the organization and former president, said the orga-

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tion at Tech, and it reaches out to the communities in and around Lubbock with educational initiatives, Don Mooney said.

George Comiskey, the faculty advisor for ASAS, said the organization is open to anyone who supports recovery.

ASAS is an official student organization that has approximately 120 members this year. Many of the members are students who are also recovering addicts or alcoholics.

“Our members come from all majors covering marketing, business, all of human sciences, and even art,” Don

Mooney said.

Comiskey said the organization’s motto is, “unity in service, service at Tech and service in the Lubbock community.” The students work together with the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery to spread awareness and bring people together.

ASAS organizes and takes part in several events throughout the year, Don Mooney said. The event that it is most involved in is the third annual Zombie Run for Recovery, which will happen in late October for National Alcohol Awareness Week.

Some other events ASAS takes part in are the Sui-

cide Walk and Take A Kid to The Game, Comiskey said. In the winter, ASAS also goes around the community and gives sleeping bags to homeless people to help them stay warm.

In the spring, ASAS hosts its biggest event of each year, the annual National Recovery Convention. At this convention, it invites speakers and professionals from other collegiate recovery centers to bond and share their recovery experiences.

“We are heavily involved in giving back to the community, it’s what we are about,” Don Mooney said. @LexiCardenDT

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in Charlotte tried to quell public anger Wednesday after a police officer shot a black man, but a dusk prayer vigil turned into a march that ended with the gunshot death of a protester.

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BRENHAM, (AP) — Blue Bell Creameries recalled select flavors of ice cream distributed across the South after finding chocolate chip cookie dough from a third-party supplier for use as an ingredient was potentially contaminated with listeria, the Brenham, Texas-based company announced Wednesday.

Blue Bell said it was recalling half gallons and pints of Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and half gallons of Blue Bell Cookie Two Step made at its Sylacauga, Alabama, creamery after intensified internal testing found the cookie dough from Garner, Iowa-based Aspen Hills Inc. potentially tainted, according to a Blue Bell statement.

No illnesses have been reported from the ice cream distributed in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina,

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The organization was first formed in the early 1990s when the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery at Tech was built.

“When it first began, (ASAS) was geared more towards just substance abuse,” Don Mooney said.

Alongside substance abuse and service, Don Mooney said ASAS has other purposes as well, including drug awareness and helping the homeless.

The organization also takes part in the instruction of the Programs for Academic Development and Reten-

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he said. “Whereas if it’s a disease you have a real reason to be struggling.”

One of the symptoms associated with the illness is unfavorable social behavior, Shumway said. Because these qualities upset people, it can be hard to sympathize with those afflicted with addiction disorders. “(Binge drinking) is part of the culture,” he said. “I mean, you come to college, you party. I think it’s taken to excess at times on college campus’.”

Being around an on-campus party culture can make it harder for people to cope with their substance abuse issues, Shumway said. Campus culture has the potential to lead to a turbulent environment for someone trying to effectively deal with addiction.

Over 40 percent of all drug-related emergency room visits of people under the age of 20 were caused by alcohol abuse, according to the Addiction Center website. Adults who first used alcohol before they turned 15 are seven times more likely to develop alcoholism than adults who first used alcohol

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abuse are just some of measures that have been proven to work, Thompson said.

“Teaching kids early on the science behind what the drug does rather than telling them to just say no has been proven to be very effective,” he said.

“Nowadays, the world is so interconnected that kids will see right through the ‘Reagan Approach.’”

Keeping today’s youth informed about the consequences of substance abuse is one of the major goals of the drug addiction resource center, Thompson said. The center encourages the community to look in to local prevention and intervention efforts.

“There is a stigma with drug addiction, and it’s not being treated the way it should,” Sterling Shumway, a professor of addictive disorders and recovery studies, said. “Not even close.”

Society views substance abuse disorders as a choice, not as a disease, Shumway said. As a result, people coping with addiction are largely looked down on in society.

“If it’s a choice then you’re either a moral reprobate or you’re a lazy bum,”

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police who had massed in riot gear to keep the marchers outside an upscale downtown hotel, Charlotte officials announced on Twitter.

But the second night of violent protests, added Charlotte to the list of U.S. cities that have erupted in violence over the death of a black man at the hands of police.

With officials refusing to release any video of the Tuesday shooting of 43-yearold Keith Lamont Scott, anger built as two starkly different versions emerged: Police say Scott disregarded repeated demands to drop his gun, while neighborhood residents say he was holding a book, not a weapon, as he waited for his son to get off the school bus.

The killing inflamed racial tensions in a city that seemed to have steered clear

of the troubles that engulfed other places.

Destructive protests Tuesday that included shutting down eight-lane Interstate 85 and burning the contents of a tractor-trailer turned violent Wednesday. Along with the man shot to death, paramedics said two other people and six police officers suffered minor injuries.

Wednesday’s protest started as a downtown prayer vigil, but an angry group left the vigil and marched through downtown Charlotte.

They shouted “black lives matter” and “hands up; don’t shoot” while cursing at officers with bicycles blocking intersections. As the protesters approached the Omni hotel, officers in riot gear lined up outside arm in arm and a few marchers threw bottles and clods of dirt.

Tennessee and Virginia, the company said.

Blue Bell said the recall involves Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough half gallons with the code date 082618226 on the carton bottoms and pints with the code dates 081518242 and 082418242, as well as Cookie Two Step half gallons with the code dates 080418222 and 081818224. Consumers should return the affected cartons to their place of purchase for full refunds.

Listeria can cause serious, sometimes fatal infections in young children and frail or elderly people, as well as those with weakened immune systems. Healthy people may suffer shortterm symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, but the infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among expectant mothers.

Last year, Blue Bell halted sales and issued a voluntarily recall of all of its products due to bacteria contamination that was linked 10 listeria cases in four states, including three deaths, drawing regulatory scrutiny from federal and state officials.

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Finding higher power helps student through recovery

By SARAH KARDA Staff Writer

It seemed that this was the only way to get away, this was the only answer to all his problems. Jacob Gurock, a sophomore personal financial planning major from West Windsor, New Jersey, has been sober from drugs and alcohol for a year and a half.

He said he never wanted to go down the path of substance abuse, but it was his escape.

Gurock said he started abusing drugs and alcohol at the age of 16. His favorite combination to get a high was alcohol and Xanax. Xanax is a common name for the drug alprazolam, a prescription medication that it is used to treat anxiety and panic disorders, according to the Drug Abuse website. He never thought he would end up going to a treatment center at the age of 19 after three years of abuse.

“My mother was an alcoholic, so I grew up in an alcoholic home,” Gurock said.

“I always told myself I was never going to do drugs and alcohol, because I saw how my mother was. I would see how she would be somewhat sober before I went to school, and then when I got back it was just completely different.

So, I knew what alcoholism was like at an early age, and I didn’t like it.”

Alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the United States.

17.6 million people, or one in every 12 adults, suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence, according to the National

Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. Gurock began drinking at the age of 15 at the first party he had ever been to. With drinking, he said his fears and insecurities all went away.

The life of the party is not everything. Being sober for almost a year and a half is much more fulfilling than drinking and doing drugs ever was, Gurock said. It is a miracle he has gotten this far.

“I couldn’t put together 24 hours, I mean I really couldn’t,” Gurock said. “I had tried to. I had tried to do this on my own power. I did everything, like I would tell myself in the mirror that I was never going to drink or I’m not going to drink today.

Five minutes later, I’m drinking. I could pass a polygraph test in that mirror. Like I wasn’t going to do it, but I just didn’t have the power.”

I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. I was done with getting in trouble. It wasn’t fun anymore, and it hadn’t been for a long time.

JACOB GUROCK STUDENT Gurock said he remembers going to the bookstore and buying self-help books to try and get over his addiction. The books did not work because they were self-help, and he did not have that much power at the time.

Most alcoholics cannot simply “use a little willpower” to stop drinking, according to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. The alcoholic is frequently in the grip of a powerful craving for alcohol, and this need can feel as strong as the need for food or water.

“I needed a power greater than myself, and I chose to call God,” Gurock said. “Ever since I let that power in, into all of my affairs and into my life in general, it has not been a struggle.”

Gurock was introduced to God at the treatment center he went to in South Padre Island. He said going through detox and being on the island during spring break, when many people go there to party, was difficult because the others were drinking.

But, Gurock found his addiction made him the loneliest he had ever been. It got to the point where he said he was using by himself and no one wanted to hang around.

“It’s this weird cycle because I know alcohol and Xanax is why I keep getting in trouble, is why I have no relationship with my family, but it’s still like my best friend,” Gurock said. “It’s very lonely because you go to that friend and you know that friend’s messing with you and it’s causing all these problems, but that’s all you have. And that cycle keeps going and going. It’s a very lonely cycle.”

After getting in trouble with the law enforcement, Gurock said he decided he was done using and abusing.

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Jacob Gurock, a sophomore personal financial planning major from West Windsor, New Jersey, started abusing alcohol and drugs at age 16. He has been sober for a year and a half now.

His dad bailed him out of jail and told him they would meet the next day once he was sober. Gurock said he remembers getting out of the car and crying while hugging his dad, saying he was done being an addict.

Gurock knew that this was his breaking point, so he consulted his friends about going to a treatment center. They all agreed treatment was the best option for him, he said.

“I was sick and tired of being sick and tired,” he said. “I was done with getting in trouble. It wasn’t fun anymore, and it hadn’t been fun for a long time.”

Gurock attended rehabilitation and said he was hesitant about accepting God into his life. He said he did not want to believe what

the sponsors were saying. He wanted to tell them they were lying, but knew their convictions were right.

Now that he’s sober, Gurock said he is living a powerful, purposeful life. His friend, Patrick Garron, who completed treatment with him, said Gurock was a tremendous help in his recovery.

“He’s really been a huge role model for me,” Garron said. “Every single day, I see him back from when we were getting drunk together to him 18 months sober now, is completely a huge turn around.”

Gurock has completely changed, Garron said. He has undergone a complete turnaround from the person he was during his addiction.

He does not give lip service, but rather lets his actions

speak for themselves.

Gurock plans to sponsor those recovering from addiction. He said he never wants to be the person he was again because that man was not him.

“In addiction, there’s just this sense of impending doom,” Gurock said. “It’s such a miserable existence. More than I wanting to get sober, I wanted peace of mind. I wanted that thought of committing suicide to be gone.

I wanted that thought of ‘You’re a worthless drug addict’ to be gone. Now I’ve got peace of mind. I don’t worry about yesterday, I don’t worry about today, I don’t worry about the hereafter. I’m just present, and it’s the coolest feeling ever.” @SarahKardaDT

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Professors discuss mental health issues

By ARIANNA AVALLE Staff Writer

Cynthia Dsauza, an assistant professor specialized in addictive disorders and recovery studies, said she recognizes that on our campus there are many cases of mood disorders that includes various mental health issues such as suicidal ideation, selfharm and substance abuse.

The most common ones, however, are depression and anxiety.

When people talk about depression, usually they think it is just a feeling of general sense of sadness and feeling down, Dsauza said. “ ( Wi t h d e p r e s s i o n ) , something that happens a lot is that the things you used to enjoy before you don’t enjoy them anymore.

That is called anhedonia,” Dsauza said. “So, if you like to hang out with your friends, you just don’t want to do that anymore. There are also going to be changes in your eating behavior and sleeping behavior, so either eating too much or too little or sleeping too much or too little. These are all the kind of symptoms of depression.”

According to the Best Colleges website, one in four students has a diagnosable illness, 40 percent of students do not seek help, 80 percent of students feel overwhelmed by their responsibilities and 50 percent have been so anxious that they struggled in school.

“I think a lot of people who experience these mental illnesses don’t want to talk to other people about it because they will always get an answer back that is not helpful,” Dsauza said.

“I think most often people just want to be heard. So, listening is very important and then guiding your friends, your colleague or yourself to a mental health

professional who is trained to help people with mental health issues.”

On the Texas Tech campus, there are several facilities that can help out those with mental health issues: the Student Counseling Center, the Psychology Clinic, the Family Therapy Clinic and The Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities.

“It does happen to pretty much everybody (to experience mental health issues), and so a lot of people don’t have anybody to talk to or they don’t feel comfortable talking to the people around them,” Dsauza said.

“So, it’s nice to have somebody that is like a third party, unbiased that they can go talk to about their mental health issues.”

The rise of these mental health issues is caused by a genetic component and an environmental component, she said. People who come from families that struggle with depression, anxiety or eating disorders or substance abuse are more likely to have those issues.

However, their immediate environments and life experiences are the final driving forces that generate mental health problems, she said.

“We say that the genet-

ics load the gun and the environment pulls the trigger,” Dsauza said.

Spencer Bradshaw, an assistant professor of addictive disorders and recovery studies, said mental issues are real, legitimate diseases, and they need to be treated seriously.

There is still a lot of stigma around them, and people suffer in silence.

“If you are struggling with a mental health disorder you are not a bad person,” Bradshaw said. “It

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It’s your brain.”

It is important to include some sort of self-care into one’s daily schedule, Dsauza said. Self-care is doing something that helps one relax, and it could be a simple activity like taking five minutes at the end of the day to read a book or to talk to an old friend.

“I think it’s very important for students to think about their mental health because our mental health actually impacts

our physical health,” Dsauza said. “So, if we are not mentally healthy,

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Millennials must engage politically

Millennials are in a weird spot when it comes to technology.

Yes, in a way we grew up with it, but we didn’t always have it.

We came of age alongside technology, so we know a time without it.

I don’t remember even using the internet until I was 11 or 12 years old.

This is different from the kids nowadays, who start playing iPad games before they can even write their names.

So many of us have treated our knowledge of politics the way our parents a n d g r a n d p a re n t s have treated their knowledge of technology.

However, we were also — more often than not — the ones who were able to figure it out first when compared to our elders.

Haley Britzky is a senior journalism major from Trophy Club.

That would explain why they’re always asking us for help with their TVs, laptops and iPhones.

They assume we know more and they’re usually right.

However, it’s frustrating when they pin their lack of knowledge about technology on the fact that they didn’t grow up with it.

“Well, you know more because it’s all your generation knows,” they say while asking us to show them how to start a DVD in the Xbox for the 15th time.

It’s frustrating because we didn’t really grow up using it.

We taught ourselves.

We didn’t have it, and then we did and no one else could really explain it to us.

We just figured it out, trial-and-error style.

Now imagine sitting

with a friend, discussing politics.

They’re commenting on the most recent happenings they saw in the news that day, and you’re not following. “ I d o n ’t u n d e r s t a n d politics,” you say. “It’s so confusing. I know literally nothing about it.”

Sound familiar?

So many of us have treated our knowledge of politics the way our parents and grandparents have treated their knowledge of technology.

We claim it’s too confusing and overwhelming, that we’ll just leave it to someone else to figure out.

However, the problem is the state of our national politics is much more crucially important than knowing how to filter emails on an iPhone.

We don’t have the excuse that we don’t understand it.

We can’t say that’s why we don’t pay attention.

We have more access to information than anyone has ever had before.

Do you have any idea

how simple it is to Google, “What is our National Security Strategy?”

It’s extremely easy, and it’s right there, spelled out for us on the White House website.

No one who is knowledgeable about politics was just born knowing tho s e thing s, j u st like we weren’t born knowing how to operate a computer.

No one who is knowledgeable about politics was just born knowing those things, just like we weren’t born knowing how to operate a computer.

They figured it out on their own. They listened, they observed and they held onto what they knew to be true.

To say knowing these things is important is putting it lightly.

We are the ones who

will be either suffering from or flourishing in the consequences of the decisions our political leaders are making.

We are the ones who will be going into the job force, having and raising kids in this world, voting and becoming leaders who can affect the policies that are put into place by these elected officials.

We must pay attention. The risks of what can happen if we don’t are too high.

I’m not saying change your major to political science and forgo “American Horror Story” for CNN or Fox News. Seriously, don’t do that.

No one wants to hang out with someone like that.

However, maybe follow a few reputable reporters on Twitter; listen to a talk show on the way to class in the morning; check out the news while you’re making dinner.

There are little things you can do to gradually grow your reservoir of political knowledge. We don’t have to know every

little thing.

Maybe start with knowing the names of the 2016 presidential candidates, their running mates and their key policies.

We’re not teenagers anymore. We’re adults who can start making a difference. We can’t leave these decisions to other people anymore.

H o w e v e r, t h e problem is the state of our national politics is much more crucially important than knowing how to filter emails on an iPhone.

It’s time to start taking responsibility for our opinions and our actions.

That starts with understanding enough to form an opinion.

Come on, Millennials. Get over it and start listening. hbritzky@dailytoreador.com

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Vote for Hillary Clinton is vote for treason Let me start this column by telling you I have no affiliation with any political party.

Political parties are comprised of sheep who are attracted to systems of ideas conveniently laid out for them by other people.

They are cowards, terrified to think for themselves.

I am beyond sick of liberal crybabies and special snowflakes running to a computer to fire up the outrage machine every time Donald Trump opens his mouth.

If you wake up in the morning offended and go to bed at night offended, I think it is time you consider the possibility that you are a petulant brat and that your feelings do not constitute fact.

This election is a referendum on our collective identity. The United States is in a state of decline.

I will not claim unequivocally that Trump will single-handedly turn

Jake Wischkaemper is a senior history major from Lubbock.

the tide at this critical moment in our history.

I w i l l , h o w e v e r, d eclare unapologetically and without doubt that Hillary Clinton will hasten our descent into tyranny and serfdom.

I cannot think of a person more undeserving of the title of commander in

Clinton should be put on trial for treason and locked up in a federal prison. chief than Clinton.

She is a devious and devilish woman. She is a habitual and unrepentant liar and sold the American people out

to the highest bidder.

I cannot think of a more terrible tragedy that could befall our nation than for the traitor called Clinton to be elected to the highest office in the land.

This election is a referendum on our collective identity.

The United States is in a state of decline.

Clinton should be put on trial for treason and locked up in a federal prison.

If you are one of the disenchanted Bernie Sanders supporters, let’s be honest.

You want free stuff.

However, there is another path to wealth and prosperity that does not involve subsidizing your own laziness and poor life choices with the fruits of other people’s labor.

For those of you who

aren’t planning on voting third party or just getting high and forgetting to vote, consider voting for the man who will give you the opportunity to be the master of your own destiny.

There is nothing Sanders supporters could do that would be more pitiful than tow the party line and vote for the woman who stole the election right out from under their candidate.

Then again, Sanders showed his cowardice when he endorsed Clinton.

I have no reasonable expectation that his supporters will act to the contrary.

Still, I will ask those Sanders supporters who have the stomach for it to examine the situation.

Why wouldn’t you vote to defeat the woman who wronged you so obviously and so unashamedly?

If your answer involves claiming that Trump is literally a Nazi or that he is a fascist or that he is a big, fat meanie-head, vote

for Jill Stein. You are too far gone.

To the “Never-Trump” conservatives, I say this: Grandstand your conservative principles and then bear witness as Clinton obliterates everything you

For those of you who aren’t planning on voting third party or just getting high and forgetting to vote, consider voting for the man who will give you the opportunity to be the master of your own destiny. claim to stand for.

Your refusal to vote for Trump is indicative of narcissism and selfaggrandizing motives.

Trump is the only hope for those of us who do not

want to see the United States become a country of lazy, ever-offended, self-righteous proles who believe they are entitled to that which others have worked for, those who believe that their ill-informed and absurd opinions usurp the right to free speech.

If you don’t agree with what I have said in this article, I don’t care.

This is not a matter of opinion, for in this article I have assumed the role of a purveyor of unadulterated truth.

Accept it. Embrace it, or be prepared to lie in the bed of despair and misfortune that you yourselves have made.

The idea of America is as glorious as it ever was.

In reality, the U.S. has borne the liberal cross for far too long, and she is tired; but the fate of our nation is not hitherto determined. There is hope yet.

On election day, vote to make America great again. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Marijuana warning signs should not be ignored My first and only college interview was perhaps my most memorable high school moment, but not in a good way.

Less than halfway through the discussion, my interviewer suddenly mentioned the “benefits” that come with legalizing pot for recreational use.

I couldn’t believe my ears.

There I was — a nervous high school senior trying to discuss my interests and accomplishments — and all the man could talk about was legalizing marijuana.

It might seem cool and fun to smoke now, but the warning signs are too much for me to feel comfortable with it.

He graciously offered to come to my school and tell my class why marijuana should be regulated

Hannah Deeter is a freshman journalism major from Wheelock.

like alcohol.

I stared in amazement, not because I was offended.

I wasn’t.

I just wanted to talk about the school I was applying to, not marijuana.

However, our quirky conversation quickly caused me to rethink about my stance on recreational marijuana use and explore the effects this drug has on our society.

Our society is changing its views on marijuana.

In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

Since then, Alaska and Oregon have followed suit, and a plethora of states have legalized it for medical use.

The marijuana culture itself is changing. Once viewed as a back-alley ac-

tivity, smoking marijuana is now promoted by celebrities, rappers and politicians.

As a very science-minded person, I like to look at what the research says.

It seems that the majority of scientists cannot say with certainty that marijuana is safe.

The Food and Drug Administration is very apprehensive about approving even medical marijuana.

According to its website, the FDA claims in no way to support the use of marijuana as a means of treating a medical condition or as a safe substance to consume.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse website, smoking marijuana is strongly correlated with memory loss, anxiety and even schizophrenia.

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marijuana is significantly associated with worse verbal memory.

The study did note, however, that marijuana didn’t seem to affect other domains of cognitive function.

National Institute on Drug Abuse suggests that, after extensive research, a great number of studies suggest that exposure to marijuana during developmental periods can cause significant harm to one’s brain.

The correlation between marijuana and memory loss is pretty clear.

However, when it comes to anxiety, the research is mixed.

Some studies — like one conducted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information — found that those already diagnosed with anxiety disorders can have increased anxiety levels when using marijuana.

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The relationship between marijuana use and anxiety is extremely complex.

Even more complex than anxiety, schizophrenia is perhaps the most disturbing side-effect of marijuana.

The marijuana culture itself is changing. Once viewed as a back-alley activity, smoking marijuana is now promoted by celebrities, rappers and politicians.

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ing the disease through smoking marijuana increase by 1,000 percent.

Smoking marijuana doesn’t guarantee that you’ll start hearing voices, but multiple studies do show a correlation.

Memory loss, anxiety and schizophrenia: To scientists, these side-affects might not be directly related to marijuana.

Researchers are unsure.

For me, however, these are warning signs.

The biggest question I have for the marijuana community is this: Is the high really worth it?

I feel marijuana will follow the same trend as cigarettes. It might seem cool and fun to smoke now, but the warning signs are too much for me to feel comfortable with it.

Although my dear college interviewer might disagree, I don’t think the marijuana lifestyle is one our society should encourage. hdeeter@dailytoreador.com

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RECOVERY

Director of Center influenced by students

By DAVID GAY L a Vida Editor

Being around students who have gone through recovery can have an impact on an individual. For Thomas Kimball, the director for the Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities, these students have made a direct impact on his life.

Kimball was hired in 2004 as a professor in th e Co l l e g e o f Hu m a n Sciences. Along with his work as a professor, he said he worked directly with the center because of his previous work with addicts and their families helping them make the transition from addiction to recovery.

Kimball then moved through the ranks and became the associate director of the center. As associate director, Kimball was in charge of the day-to-day student offerings and help for the students. When the previous director, Kitty Harris, retired, Kimball said he was surprised he

was offered the director position.

“I did not envision that I would eventually KIMBALL become the director,” Kimball said.

“That was never a part of my thought process.

When our former director Kitty Harris retired, I was grateful to take on the directorship, but it was surprising, and I didn’t expect it actually.”

Through the director position, Kimball oversees the budget and the resources to run the center, he said. He oversees the community itself and is responsible for the programs and the operations in the center.

One of the bigger parts Kimball oversees is the scholarship endowment, he said. Kimball has to make sure the cen ter awards scholarships based on the criteria they give the students.

George Comiskey, associate director of external relations at the Center for

Collegiate Recovery Communities, said they are able to give 120 scholarships to undergraduate students and 15 to 20 graduate students scholarships.

Comiskey said this helps some of the students get into the university.

“If they have a checkered past, which many people who are in recovery do, we are able to navigate that and get them into the university, maybe on a probationary status, but get them in, so they can establish themselves in this community and as students here,” Comiskey said.

Being around these students in the center has been a blessing for Kimball, he said. Being around them has made him a better person.

“People in recovery are incredibly grateful, incredibly humble and incredibly hard working,” Kimball said. “They understand what it means to have a second chance at life. Just being in that kind of environment and supporting them and caring about them and

vice versa, I’ve learned so much about life. I’ve learned about how a community of people can support one another.”

Being around these students helped Kimball get through a difficult time in his life. He learned from people in the center to learn from the 12step approach. Kimball learned how to turn his will over to God. Interactions with the students also helped Kimball in teaching the class on family dynamics of addiction recovery, he said.

“My direct interaction with the people here who are in recovery and their families has really impacted me in the classroom,” Kimball said.

“There are situations and scenarios that I’m dealing with every day that helps me be able to teach those principles in a more powerful way.”

Kimball’s favorite moment of every year is the holiday dinner where all the graduating seniors speak about their journeys.

These speeches, Kimball

said, capture what the center is all about.

“It’s a testament to their recovery, to their growth, to their hard work to realize this goal to be a college graduate,” Kimball said.

However, not everything goes smoothly for Kimball. Every now and then, there are students who do fall out of recovery. Kimball said it does not happen very often but when it does, it affects the whole center, not just a few people.

As the center grows in the future, Kimball wants to grow the community, he said. In the center, currently, they have about 120 to 130 students. In the next year or so, Kimball wants to see 200 students in the program.

For that increase in students to happen, a scholarship endowment base and the operating budget has to increase, he said.

Through the increase in students, Kimball hopes to see the community to be more diverse, he said.

“I anticipate over time

that our community will become much more diverse with more women, more minorities and other marginalized people such as the LGBTQ community,” Kimball said. “We are making a specific effort to reach out to folks that typically are marginalized and to let them know we are here and we can be of service to them in their recovery.”

Kimball also hopes to see more colleges adopt centers like the one at Tech, he said. The Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities is a part of the Association of Recovery in Higher Education along with 70 other schools including Baylor University and the University of Houston, according to its website, www.collegiaterecovery.org.

“We don’t have enough collegiate recovery programs across the nation,” Kimball said. “There has to be a collegiate recovery program on every college campus in the nation, and there just isn’t. There could be and should be.” @DavidGayDT

RECOVERY

Students with eating disorders seek help

By SOPHIA AYMOND Staff Writer

Skipping one meal on accident might be just a forgetful mistake, but missing those next few is not just an accident. It’s a disorder.

There are many studies and statistics about the average number of people who have eating disorders. The bulimia statistics ranges anywhere from 2 percent to 15 percent and sometimes as high as 20 percent, McKenzie Wilkes, assistant director of the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery, said. anorexia can be up to five

or 6 percent of the population of college students.

“It just varies depending on what disorder and where you look, so I don’t have any specific ones as far as Texas Tech goes because we don’t have that direct data,” Wilkes said.

College students can become anorexic while they are in college, but it is a lot more frequent to develop bulimia or bingeeating disorder, Wilkes said. Anorexia is more common at younger ages and can sometimes reoccur with the stress of college.

College can make stu-

dents more prone to unhealthy coping, Klint Hobbs, licensed psychologist at the Student Counseling Center, said. Stress, deadlines, new relationships and responsibility to make life-changing decisions can be a lot of pressure.

About 70 to 80 percent of the population has some form of disordered eating on the spectrum, Wilkes said.

“People can have disordered eating but not have a diagnosable eating disorder,” Wilkes said.

Eating disorders can also be triggered by dramatic events in someone’s life such as parents split-

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ting up or friendship issues, Wilkes said. People have a hard time coping with what is going on in their lives and need a coping mechanism.

“I wouldn’t say there is one most common cause,” Wilkes said. “If they are not equipped to handle with the chaos happening in their life, they are going to typically look for a way of coping and a lot of people choose to manipulate food.”

While rehabilitating from an eating disorder, students need a team comprised of a therapist, dieti-

tians, a medical doctor and possibly a psychiatrist, Wilkes said. Students must address the disorder from mental health and dietetic perspectives and see a medical doctor to make sure their body functions are healthy and in normal range.

At Tech, there is a psychotherapy group called Weighting for Inner Peace designed for clients who struggle with disordered eating in any form, according to the Student Counseling Center website. It includes personal-sharing, a process group and work-

ing to relate to others.

“We have the Weighting for Inner Peace,” Hobbs said. “This is a therapy group where they do group therapy.”

It is possible to rehabilitate while in school, depending on how severe the disorder is, Hobbs said.

They can be successful in overcoming the disorder by attending counseling and group therapy.

“For a student to be successful with this disorder it would not have to be too severe, but it is possible,” Hobbs said. @DailyToreador

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Ray LaMontagne cancels Texas Jolie and Pitt’s romance, divorce bookended by films show over university guns law LOS ANGELES (AP) — For Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt, it started with tequila and dancing in the rain in Bogota and ended on the French seaside with white wine, pills and tears.

Hollywood’s most storied modern couple only appeared together twice in the movies. The first time, in 2005’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” they fell in love. A decade later, “By the Sea” would come just a year before their relationship would come to an end with Jolie Pitt filing for divorce.

Both times they played a childless husband and wife whose passion had turned to resentment.

Their real life together was full of public declarations and displays of love, children, philanthropy, humanitarian work and glamour. In the movies,

though, their surface beauty was only a mask for the rot and boredom underneath. Still, even through tears and gunfire, they always smoldered. “ Yo u c a n a b s o l u t e l y madly love the same person you want to kill,” Jolie Pitt said in 2015, seated on a silk-sheeted bed next to Pitt on the set of “By the Sea,” filmed on their technical honeymoon, but it could have easily been about either. In “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” they are actually trying to kill each other after all.

It was a strange story to fall in love to, but not uncommon in the entertainment business, even if Pitt was married at the time to Jennifer Aniston. Jolie had already been married twice, to Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.

“We just became kind of a pair. And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe,” Jolie Pitt told Vogue in 2006.

Monday’s divorce filing comes after 12 years together and two in marriage. The couple wed in August 2014, privately at their French chateau in the Provence hamlet of Correns with their children serving as ring bearers and throwing flower petals.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne has canceled a Thursday show at the University of Texas in protest of a new state law that allows concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into public college buildings.

The law allows those weapons into the university's Bass Concert Hall, where LaMontagne was scheduled to perform.

In a statement canceling the show, LaMontagne said he considers himself "very open

minded" but he can't support allowing guns on college campuses.

LaMontange said:

"There are a lot of things this country needs more of, but guns aren't one of them."

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Students research recovered alcoholics’ brain reactions

By SARAH KARDA Staff Writer

At the Center for Addiction Recovery Research, a group of students are studying recovered alcoholics and their families. Three studies are running right now to study the brains of addicts and the brains of their family members.

Addiction is a disease that currently effects 17.6 million adults, or one in every 12 adults, in the United States, according to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. Student researchers at the Center for Addiction Recovery Research at Texas Tech have been studying the brains of alcoholics to understand why some people become addicted and others do not.

The participants are shown pictures that are neutral, positive and alco-

hol-related to see how their brains react, Tramel Pennie, a senior human sciences major from DANIELS Houston, said.

“We have two different studies,” Pennie said. “One we have for addicts, previous alcoholics, and we scan their brains for potential biomarkers of addiction. With addiction we know it’s a disease, but we don’t know all the specifics about it. There’s new things to find out every day.”

The other study the center is running is for individuals who have addicts in their families, Pennie said. In this study, the participants are asked to bring in photos of their immediate family members for the researchers to show them while they are hooked to a fNIR machine.

The fNIR machine tracks the participants’ brain responses to compare the individuals who are not addicted with the individuals who are, Pennie said.

This technology is relatively new in the field of neurological research because most researchers use an MRI machine to photograph the brain’s responses, Pennie said. But, at the center the researchers have begun using the fNIR because it is cheaper and more compact than an MRI machine.

“Research is all about gathering,” Michael Daniels, a senior community, family and addiction sciences major from El Paso, said. “If there’s any crossover in gathering data you can say ‘Wow you know what, this part of the brain lights up in the same way for these individuals, and these individuals have struggled

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with past addictions.’”

The researchers have been running the biomarkers of addicJURECKY tion study for two and a half to three years.

The family addiction study has been running for around two and a half years. The research center has yet to publish any of its findings because the studies are still running, Pennie said.

The center will close these studies this semester, Pennie said. When it does, the leaders of the center will publish the team’s findings.

“More information helps out researchers in general,” Pennie said. “Even if we don’t directly say ‘This is what causes it’s, you give other researchers information to do more research. Like we’re

dealing with recovering addicts, but maybe somebody sees our research that’s actually doing a study with actual addicts. We can kind of use some information that we got from them and use it in our study. And it just keeps kind of going on. You just contribute to a field.”

The biomarkers of addiction study had 100 participants, Pennie said. It has since not needed any more participants. The family addiction study still needs eight people to be finished.

The students who make up the research team are those interested in curing addiction. The team studies brain biology, sees how it reacts to certain images and how those reactions change over the course of recovery, Jenna Jurecky, a junior biology major from El Paso, said.

This kind of research is

not appealing to everyone, Daniels said.

It takes a lot of time to be able to gather enough inPENNIE formation to be able to find correlations within it. But, to be a part of finding information that could lead to a cure is what the research is for.

“It’s a lot of compiling data and of course to the normal person that just can be kind of eh, but it’s interesting that there’s been this process going on to gather information and to be a part of something like that,” Daniels said. “To imagine being at the ground floor of trying to find that cure, and 20 years later you’re like ‘Man I remember when we were gathering and getting all that information.’” @SarahKardaDT

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Former Uber, Lyft driver charged with assaulting passengers ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — A former driver for Uber and Lyft was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting several women while on the job, and Southern California investigators said that there are likely more victims.

An 18-year-old college student reported that she was assaulted Friday afternoon after requesting an Uber car in a city near San Diego, said Escondido police Lt. Justin Murphy.

The woman told police that the driver picked her up on the Palomar College campus in San Marcos and immediately turned off the Uber app. She texted friends, telling them she felt uncomfortable, and then he drove her to another location where he attacked her inside his blue 2014 Chrysler mini-van, Murphy said.

Later that day, police ar-

rested Jeremy Vague, 37, at his home.

The former college basketball player, who is 7 feet tall and weighs 270 pounds, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to multiple sexual assault charges. A phone listing for Vague could not be found and his attorney could not be reached for comment.

In the course of the investigation, Murphy said detectives discovered the additional victims, including two 19-year-old women in the neighboring city of Escondido.

Vague had given one of them a Lyft ride on Sept. 7, and the other was waiting at the destination. Vague asked to take a picture with the two of them and as they posed he touched them inappropriately, Murphy said.

On Sept. 6, another student, who had not requested a ride, called Palomar College

police to report that Vague had tried to lure her into his minivan, but she had refused.

Campus police decided no crime had occurred, but they contacted Vague and told him to stay away from the college.

Neither Uber nor Lyft was notified of the incident, Murphy said. It was unclear whether the woman and college police had identified Vague as an Uber or Lyft driver.

It was also unclear when the companies were contacted about the other two assaults or when they ended Vague’s employment.

According to court records, Vague pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of vehicle burglary in northern Utah stemming from a July 2002 incident. The Associated Press reported at the time that Vague and another man were arrested for stealing golf clubs.

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Mylan CEO defends EpiPen cost to lawmakers WASHINGTON (AP) — Outraged Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday grilled the head of pharmaceutical company Mylan about the significant cost increase of its life-saving EpiPens and the profits for a company with sales in excess of $11 billion.

Defending the company’s business practices, Mylan CEO Heather Bresch told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that she wishes the company had “better anticipated the magnitude and acceleration” of the rising prices for some families.

“We never intended this,” Bresch said, but maintained that her company doesn’t make much profit from each emergency allergy shot and signaled the company has no plans to lower prices.

The list price of EpiPens has grown to $608 for a twopack, an increase of more

than 500 percent since 2007.

Parents who rely on multiple EpiPens to respond when their children have allergic reactions, whether at home or at sporting events, have lashed out at Mylan in growing public outcry.

In nearly four hours of questioning, the soft-spoken CEO often seemed unsure, or declined to answer directly, when asked about the company’s finances and profits, infuriating lawmakers.

“You could make this thing go away by being honest and candid, but I don’t think you are,” House Oversight Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told Bresch as he ended the hearing.

Afterward, Chaffetz told reporters he thought Bresch created more problems with her vague testimony.

The frustration was bipartisan. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat

on the oversight panel, compared Bresch’s answers to a game of “hide the ball.”

Bresch found little sympathy in the room. In response to one question, Bresch acknowledged that she made $18 million in salary last year.

“Sounds like you’re doing pretty well on this,” said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. Chaffetz said high executive pay at Mylan “doesn’t add up for a lot of people” as the EpiPen price has increased.

He said executives for the company made $300 million over five years while the list price for a pair of the allergy shots rose.

“Parents don’t have a choice,” Chaffetz said. “If your loved one needs this, it better darn well be in your backpack.”

Bresch, who displayed an EpiPen, said the company makes approximately $50 in profit on each shot. Chaffetz said he finds that “a little hard to believe.”

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Marion Cotillard pregnant, denies Brad Pitt reports LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marion Cotillard is announcing her pregnancy and shooting down rumors of any romantic involvement with Brad Pitt.

“This is going to be my first and only reaction to the whirlwind news that broke 24 hours ago and that I was swept up into,” the Oscarwinning actress wrote in a statement posted Wednesday on Instagram .

The star of such films as “The Artist” and “Rust and Bone” said that she is “not used to commenting on things like this nor taking them seriously but as this situation is spiraling and affecting people I love, I have to speak up.”

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RECOVERY

Addiction recovery resources help students

By ALYSSA ACOSTA Staff Writer

Half of all full-time college students binge drink or abuse drugs, and a quarter of those students meet the medical definition of substance abuse or dependence, according to a study conducted at Columbia University.

College can be the most unfriendly places for students struggling with addiction because of what they are going through, George Comiskey, faculty advisor for Association of Students About Service, said.

This association is a student organization that provides opportunities for students at Tech to enhance their recovery from addictive disorders through fellowship and service “A lot of people are going out, getting drunk at night, a lot of people using mind-altering chemicals like prescription drugs,” Comiskey said.

“They’re using them to change how they feel. When our students are around people that are in that condition, it can be a trigger for them.”

The Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery offers a safe place for students struggling with addiction, Comiskey said. CSAR is mainly for students already on the path of recovery and who need a support system.

Brittany Brock, a graduate student in interdisciplinary studies from Dallas, said she started using mindaltering substances when she came to Tech and realized she had a problem when her grades began to suffer.

Brock started her journey to

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The center uses the 12-step method of recovery, Comiskey said. They are adapting to other forms of recovery, however, because the 12-step program is not for everyone.

The students who are in the center come from everywhere, Comiskey said.

Just about every college at Texas Tech is represented in the center. Other students, who hear about the center through different treatment programs, come to Tech just to participate at the center.

Mary Joe Powell, a firstyear Clinical Medical Health and Licensed Professional Counseling graduate student from Sacaton, Arizona, said she heard about the center while working at a transition house in Lubbock after her incarceration.

Powell identifies as a poly-user, she said. A polyuser is someone who uses anything to change the way a person feels about themselves.

Through working at the transition house, Powell said she heard about the center while taking different people to meetings at the center.

When she went to the center,

recovery at the CSAR by attending a celebratory meeting. CSAR hosts a Celebration of Recovery meetings every Thursday for all forms of recovery. They also offer Alcoholics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous meetings.

“Hearing someone talk (about their recovery) really opened up my eyes,” Brock said. “I thought ‘OK, I need to stop, I have a problem’ and I did.”

The best resource in recovery was the CSAR because it offered a real sense of community, Brock said.

While CSAR is a great resource on campus for recovering addicts, there are other local resources such as Aspire Recovery Center, Managed Care Center of Lubbock, Ranch at Dove Tree and STAGES Recovery Addiction Services, Comiskey said.

The Aspire Recovery Center has treatments like intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, outpatient and supported recovery living. Aspire, accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, centers around getting college students back on track, Robin Casey, CEO and owner of Aspire Recovery Centers of Texas, said.

“We think that trying to use the least restrictive level of care is important,” Casey said. “Where we can get them stabilized medically and then start reintegrating them back into the world, immediately.”

Casey, a former meth addict and now 15 years sober, said every treatment is different based on the

patient and the case. Aspire is a step-down program for patients coming from other treatment centers. It focuses on expanded care, which allows for more freedom.

“I really enjoy (working in recovery),” Casey said. “I was working at treatment center, and I realized that my personal experience with addiction was really beneficial.”

Other resources similar to Aspire includes STAGES of Recovery, which offers a treatment center and sober living communities, Casey said.

she was encouraged to apply.

Powell had a bit of trouble getting into Tech but the center wanted her, she said.

“My GPA, when I went to school before, was a 1 because I was in active addiction when I came to school,” Powell said.

“By graduation, I was able to bring my GPA up to a 3.1. You take the chemicals out of the situation, and I have a fighting chance just like everyone else.”

Through working with the center, Powell hopes to encourage the students in the center just as others encouraged her, she said.

“In October, I will be celebrating 11 years in recovery,” Powell said. “When I came here, I was really overwhelmed, and I didn’t think I could do it. As a nontraditional student, it was hard for me to get back into the groove and in the college lifestyle. I want to help students get acclimated and feel a part of the community as soon as they possibly can.

I want to introduce them to people their age or to people, whether it is staff or others, so they can feel that support system already built in.”

Students who in the recovery process might be isolated, Comiskey said. Through the center, he wants those students to have hope and know that other people in

the center have experienced what they went through.

The center tries to extend the support system from the actual building, Comiskey said. They try and put students in the recovery center together in courses on campus.

“We try to team (students) up so that they have a buddy system that is there,” Comiskey said. “They can go and talk to them (in class) and say ‘Man, someone is reeking of marijuana.’ They have someone they can process that with. The support system is pretty mobile.”

This support system helps their academics, Comiskey said. The students who come out of the center have better grades than other students on campus.

Along with the clinical part, there is also a research aspect to the center. Spencer Bradshaw, assistant professor of addictive disorders and recovery studies, said the research and clinical parts go hand in hand.

“Research helps inform us clinically what we are working with,” Bradshaw said. “If we weren’t doing research, we wouldn’t know what we are treating and how we can treat it. But, if we don’t treat it and have a clinical side to things, then all we do is understand it, and it doesn’t make a difference.”

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“We stumbled upon something that really works,” Watts said. “The longer (patients) stay the better results they have.”

The sober living community offers an outpatient experience with the benefits of on-site faculty, treatment and having a place to live, Watts said.

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Tim Spellings, a senior community, family and addiction sciences from Lufkin, said he came to Lubbock for rehabilitation. He ended up staying in Lubbock and living in a sober community, so he can get through school while continuing his recovery. Spellings said after his second arrest he realized if he was going to have a future, he would need to get help.

There are students in the center who want to learn more about what addiction is, and they do that through participating in the research that Bradshaw leads, he said. “(The students) gain an understanding about how this is more of a brain disease,” Bradshaw said. “Addiction is one of the most stigmatized words in the English language.

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for the pain and frustration to stop, then there is hope.”

are experiencing. It could lead to greater compassion for other people struggling.”

The stigma associated with the words addiction and recovery develops a misconception about the center for a lot of students on campus. Comiskey said he hopes students understand the people in the center are miracles. Many people who get caught up in addiction do not make it through.

Comiskey said he is happy that the university admin-

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“We are here to be a safe place for someone struggling with an addiction,” Comiskey said. “Just to have a space where the university says we believe enough in recovering people that we will create a space for them to gather, to connect with other people who are struggling with recovery and addiction, (that) is important.”

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A g a i n s t t h e Te x a s Christian Horned Frogs, the Texas Tech volleyball team contested four frames in a 3-1 loss Wednesday night at the TCU Recreation Center, according to a Tech athletics release.

For most of the match, TCU made use of strong starts to wedge in large leads and place pressure on the Red Raiders. In the first set, Tech lost 25-14

as the Horned Frogs outscored it 6-1 with an 18-13 advantage. Throughout the set, the Horned Frogs delivered clean hits for a match best .472 hitting percentage, a significant difference between Tech’s .258 hitting percentage.

Tech avenged its double-digit loss by snatching the second set 25-22 despite hitting .167 rate.

A 5-1 run by the Tech offense defined the set after the teams found themselves tied at 19 each.

Senior Lauren Douglass began the rally with a kill, while junior Audrey Fragniere cleared the final point of the set with a kill of her own. The second set concluded with the Red Raiders accumulating five kills more than TCU at 15. Aside from the second frame, TCU’s offense recorded more kills than Tech in the match with its largest kill differential occurring in the third set when the Horned Frogs recorded 17

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Past the second set, however, Tech could not meet the Horned Frogs on the scoreboard and saw its hitting percentages take a dip. At the end of the third set, Tech ended the round with hitting for an efficiency rate of .000.

The lack of offensive productivity allowed TCU to work a 7-2 run after leading 17-12 for a 25-13 win.

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and final set as it tallied an efficiency rate of -.065.

Repeating its score from the frame, TCU benefited from seven Tech errors, a number the team repeated in all but the first set of the meeting.

Tech finished the game managing 36 kills, 22 less than the Horned Frogs’ 59. Douglass came away with the 10 of Tech’s kills.

At the setter position, sophomore Kyndal Cowan filled in for an injured Marguerite Grubb who

suffered an ankle injury in Tech’s last tournament of the season just four days prior.

The loss to the Horned Frogs extended Tech’s losing streak to four games after having won 10 consecutive matches earlier in the season. The team’s record is now at 10-6.

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