How College Campuses Can Support Students in Recovery

About this episode: Recovering from a substance use disorder while in college is a unique challenge mired by stigma and social pressures to drink or use drugs. But collegiate interventions for young adults can change the trajectory and even save lives. In this episode: Noel Vest, an addiction recovery researcher, explains what makes a good collegiate recovery program and why now is a great time for higher education institutions to expand support for students. Guest: Noel Vest , PhD, is an assistant professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health . Host: Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA , is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast , an editor for Expert Insights , and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Show links and related content: Drug recovery is now US national policy. Campuses need to step up —Times Higher Education ADDRESSING ADDICTION THROUGH THE GREAT AMERICAN RECOVERY INITIATIVE —The White House Association of Recovery in Higher Education What is SAFE Campuses? —SAFE Project Transcript information: Looking for episode transcripts? Open our podcast on the Apple Podcasts app (desktop or mobile) or the Spotify mobile app to access an auto-generated transcript of any episode. Closed captioning is also available for every episode on our YouTube channel. Contact us: Have a question about something you heard? Looking for a transcript? Want to suggest a topic or guest? Contact us via email or visit our website .

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How College Campuses Can Support Students in Recovery is an episode from Public Health On Call by The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

This episode is 16:44 long.

This episode was published on Jun 4, 2026.

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