Oh my God, there is no way I’m going to be able to do this.

~ Jason Schwartz

emma

From MLive:

Emma Nagler had always dreamed her college years would be filled with wild parties, late nights and parents who would be none the wiser.

By the time she arrived on campus as a college freshman in Ann Arbor three years ago, her sentiment had shifted dramatically. The concerns about where she was going to party and how she was going to get high were replaced with fears about falling back into the habit of drinking and using drugs.

“At freshman orientation, everyone was talking about drinking and partying,” Nagler recalls. “I remember thinking ‘Oh my God, there is no way I’m going to be able to do this.'”

Emma did it. Read the rest of her story here.

Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.

One thought on “Oh my God, there is no way I’m going to be able to do this.”

  1. Huge props to Emma and Michigan’s CRP — this is the story that needs to be told more often. Another gem from Mr. Schwartz.
    Cheers from the Penn State Collegiate Recovery Community

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