Mental Health and Sober Living Residence

Three in-studio voices join us to respond to the mental-health and substance-use -related fatalities in the Tulane Community: Meredith Harris, a therapist and addiction counselor, Joe Krown, a local pianist and father to a university student, and Emma Tuttleman-Kriegler, a Tulane student and representative of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. All discuss Meredith Harris's project to open a sober-living dormitory accessible to students who need distance from the intense social pressures on campus, the facility will be named in honor of Meredith's brother, Colin McCuaig Wheeler, who died from an overdose suicide. A fundraising event for the Colin McCuaig Wheeler sober living house will be held at the Howlin' Wolf this Thursday February 26 to raise public awareness of the serious problems of mental health and substance use on campus. The concert features Joe Krown with Walter Wolfman Washington and Russell Baptiste Jr., John "Pap" Gros Band, and Bonerama. This discussion is dedicated to the memory of those we've lost: http://compelledtoact.com/Tragic_listing/Main_listing_Fall_2014.htm.