Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Abuse Prevention Center

Mission

The mission of Towson University's Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Abuse Prevention Center is to create an environment conducive to academic success and wellness. Our mission is based on the knowledge that the campus is a complex community that influences the behavior of students. Students attempt to understand the campus community through their acquired psychological dispositions. The interaction between the individual student and the campus community is powerful in determining all sorts of student behaviors, including those relating to the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

Goals

• Provide expertise in the development and coordination of ATOD education and prevention activities on campus
• Support the Peer Education/Counseling Program on campus
• Foster relationships with the Baltimore County ATOD prevention coordinator to support ATOD prevention and education activities within the community
• Develop a mechanism for communicating and planning education and prevention activities with higher education institutions in the Baltimore metropolitan area as well as statewide
• Implement a social marketing campaign to alter misperceptions of students regarding patterns of alcohol use on campus
  

Resources

• Counseling Center - Substance Treatment programs on campus
• Training Opportunities
• Self-Help Resources
• Dowell Health Center
  
  

For more information about alcohol and other drug use, or the ATOD Center, call 410-704-3723 or e-mail Donna Cox, director of the ATOD Prevention Center, dcox@towson.edu.

Donna M. Cox, Ph.D., Director
ATOD Abuse Prevention Center
Burdick Hall, Room 137

Phone: 410-704-3723
E-mail: dcox@towson.edu