Taking Care of Ourselves & Each Other

Health & Well-Being Resources

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Alcohol and Other Drug Education for Incoming Students

Welcome to Stanford!  As incoming students, you are required to complete online training to educate yourself and be prepared to help others.  While most students choose not to use drugs and/or use alcohol in moderation, it is important for you to be ready to navigate things once you arrive.  Given the imminent dangers associated with fentanyl-laced pills, it is imperative that we all are ready to help each other if emergencies arise. 

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To this end, you are required complete the following online programs before NSO:

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Binge Thinking Alcohol Education

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Binge Thinking applies peer-reviewed research toward decreasing students’ alcohol use by curbing their motives and enhancing their protective behavioral strategies. Through interaction, and games encouraging reflection, Binge Thinking challenges students to introspectively interrogate the ways their emotional responses to facts about consumption impair their ability to enact positive decisions.  Please allow at least 30-45 minutes to complete the program. You will be credited with completing the program once you are connected to a completion page at the end of the interactive session.  

Binge Thinking Learning Objectives

  • Explore the emotional, social, and academic pressures to abuse alcohol.
  • Review the effects of alcohol use and abuse, including its impact on cognition, academic success, personal relationships, as well as vulnerability to violence.
  • Cultivate internal motivation and a critical lens to counter the more reactionary, emotional responses students may feel to perceived social pressures to abuse alcohol.
  • Provide tactics to engage themselves and their peers in a healthy relationship and understanding of alcohol

This training must be completed prior to Tuesday September 17, 2024.  If you need an extension, please let us know by emailing alcohol@stanford.edu  

Please make sure YOUR name appears at the top of this dashboard. If it does not, email us back immediately. 

We recommend using Google Chrome as the best browser to complete the program, as well as making sure you are in a location with strong Wi-Fi connectivity as the training is meant to be highly interactive.  

For technical assistance please contact CatharsisOnlineTraining@catharsisproductions.com. 

If you exit the training midway, you should be able to pick up where you left off. However, if you have cleared your cache, changed browsers, or switched devices before your return, you will be required to start over.  

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Stanford Cannabis Education

The Stanford Cannabis Education online training educates students on cannabis (marijuana and other derivatives).  The landscape around cannabis is ever-changing and there are risks and challenges that need to be understood. This 30 minute online educational course offers knowledge, skills, and tools to help students make healthy, informed decisions about cannabis.  

Stanford Cannabis Education Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the different components of cannabis, including THC and CBD.
  • Summarize the policy landscape surrounding cannabis legalization.
  • Identify practical skills for harm reduction associated with both short- and long-term cannabis use.
  • Learn the available resources on campus and how to stay connected with them.

This training must be completed prior to Tuesday September 17, 2024.  If you need an extension, please let us know by emailing alcohol@stanford.edu  

To access the program, log-in to Canvas and authenticate in.  Enroll in the Office of Substance Use Programs, Education & Resources Course and complete the training/module under the Incoming Students Course Section.

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Stanford Opioid Education and Naloxone Training

The opioid epidemic is very serious, and thousands of people die every year to overdoses – including accidental deaths due to fentanyl-laced pills. This 30 minute online educational course offers education on opioids and training on naloxone (opioid overdose reversal medication) which is available on campus.  

Learning Objectives:

  • Provide a broad overview of the current landscape of the opioid epidemic.
  • Learn how to recognize and reverse an opioid overdose by administering Naloxone nasal spray.
  • Learn the available resources on campus and how to stay connected with them.

This training must be completed prior to Tuesday September 17, 2024.  If you need an extension, please let us know by emailing alcohol@stanford.edu  

To access the program, log-in to Canvas and authenticate in.  Enroll in the Office of Substance Use Programs, Education & Resources Course and complete the training/module under the Incoming Students Course Section.