If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

LSU never puts a price on counselling, so ask what it costs when you book. The health centre’s billing list covers medical, sexual health, psychiatry, labs and X-ray, and counselling is not on it — which is not the same as being told it is free. What is published is a $20 charge for a missed mental health appointment, so ring and cancel at least 24 hours ahead if you cannot make it, and the slot goes to somebody else. How much you get is described rather than counted: “short-term therapy”, with a referral out for anything longer. Uwill is measured in credits — 90 on campus, 150 for LSU Online — and nothing says what a credit buys, so ask that too. Section 06 covers paying for care.

Ring 225-924-5781 at any hour — and if talking is too much, the same line takes texts and chat. 225-924-5781 is The Phone, and LSU publishes it plainly: “Trained counselors are available 24 hours per day.” There is no press step and no menu. Who picks up is not spelled out beyond “trained counselors” and, elsewhere, “a Paraprofessional Counselor”, so keep 988 alongside it — free, and answered round the clock wherever you are. Three Baton Rouge emergency rooms are named with numbers, and so is the Bridge Center for Hope on 225-256-6604, which is somewhere you can go rather than a waiting room. Section 02 explains why that is worth knowing.

LSU does not say whether you can be seen from outside Louisiana, so ring and ask before you travel. Nothing on the mental health pages, the levels-of-care page or LSU Online’s student support page answers it. The only hint either way is that online students are given more Uwill credits than students on campus, which suggests distance students are expected to use Uwill — without ever saying where you may be sitting when you do. Put the question to 225-578-8774 before you need an appointment rather than in the middle of one. Section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are.

Five standing recovery meetings, all in the same room, and you can simply turn up. LSU Collegiate Recovery runs every one of them at 167 Coates Hall: SMART on Mondays at 3pm, All-Recovery on Tuesdays at 9:30am, All-Recovery on Wednesdays at 7pm, AA at noon on Thursdays, and a Recovery Lounge open 8am–4:30pm every weekday. Knowing the room in advance makes a hard door easier. You do not have to be sober to be welcome: you need only “be willing to support those in recovery, be in recovery… or have the desire to recover”. The TEAM class covers alcohol and drug risk reduction, and its price is not published, so ask. One oddity to expect — the Tuesday meeting is headed “Lunch” and timed at 9:30am.

If you call for help, LSU’s Code of Student Conduct protects you, and it covers drink as well as drugs. Medical amnesty reaches “a Student seeking medical attention for themselves”, “a Student seeking medical attention on behalf of another Student”, and a registered student organisation seeking it for a student. The scope is “alcohol, drug, physical, and emotional distress related emergencies”, and no limit on how often you may use it is published. It will not wipe out other violations in the same incident, and afterwards you are asked to have an educational conversation and an assessment. Make the call anyway: a conduct policy is not the criminal law, and Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute protects the caller in a drug emergency whatever your college publishes — Section 03.

LSU publishes no way to get naloxone on campus — no pick-up point, no residence-hall kit, no training and no price. Use the state route instead, which is free and asks nothing of you: Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme runs distribution sites across the state, and there are sites within a few miles of campus. Section 05 has the map and how to use it. Narcan is also on the shelf at a pharmacy without a prescription. Pick a kit up on an ordinary afternoon, before there is any reason to need one.

• If you have 225-924-3900 written down for The Phone, do not rely on it — it comes from an LSU document compiled in 2017 and the number LSU’s current emergency page publishes is 225-924-5781. The same old document sends you to a crisis chat address that no longer exists.
• All five recovery meetings are in 167 Coates Hall — SMART Mondays 3pm, All-Recovery Tuesdays 9:30am, All-Recovery Wednesdays 7pm, AA Thursdays noon, and the Recovery Lounge weekdays 8am–4:30pm.
• The Bridge Center for Hope on 225-256-6604 is a crisis centre in Baton Rouge rather than an emergency department — worth knowing before a night when the choice is that or an ER.
• Cancel at least 24 hours ahead if you cannot make a counselling appointment: a missed one carries a $20 charge.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Your campus health fee pays for counselling, so check you have paid it. Brief individual and group therapy are “included in the University’s Campus Health Fee assessed each semester”. If you are a degree-seeking undergraduate the fee is billed with your tuition and you are covered; part-time graduate and professional students “may need to pay the fee separately”, so ask about that before you book a course of therapy. Without it you can still have a same-day consultation, just not ongoing work. You get up to 12 sessions per academic year. A missed appointment costs $20, cancellation windows are two hours for the health centre and 24 hours for counselling, and arriving 15 minutes late means rebooking. Section 06 covers paying.

Ring 504-264-6074 at any hour and a person answers. 504-264-6074 is The Line, and Tulane is unusually straight about what you get: “24/7, a trained professional at The Line will answer your phone call”, and they belong to its own counselling service rather than an outside call centre. There is nothing to press. Teladoc is named elsewhere on the site, but that is for booked virtual appointments, not for tonight. If The Line does not get you what you need, 988 is free and answered round the clock. Two Tulane pages give different after-hours numbers for Student Affairs — both are below, and it is worth saving both.

If you are anywhere in the United States, there is a service open to you. Tulane publishes two rules and keeps them apart. Its own telehealth asks that you be in the state: “If you are currently located in Louisiana… schedule a virtual visit.” The wider route is Mental Health Complete, open to fee-paying students who “reside in the United States”. It is honest about the edge case too — those clinicians are “licensed only in the United States” and the service “is not available internationally”. So if you are studying from abroad, nothing Tulane runs will reach you; Section 02 is where to start instead.

Two recovery meetings you can walk into, both just off campus. The Tulane Recovery Community publishes AA “Recovery 101” on Mondays at 7pm at the Wesley Campus Center on Freret Street, and an all-recovery meeting on Tuesdays at a named address on Calhoun Street — food and fellowship 5:30–6:30, meeting 6:30–7:30. Eating with people first makes a first meeting much easier. Recovery yoga, the book study, the meditation meeting and the women’s group are “currently paused”, so do not set out for those. If a group is more than you want right now, BASICS runs one to one through The Well and is booked by email, and there is an eCHECKUP self-screen for alcohol, cannabis and nicotine you can do alone.

If you call for help, Tulane protects both of you — it says so in as many words. The policy is called “Call For Help”, it applies when help is sought “in good faith for an alcohol- or drug-related emergency”, and it “covers both: the student calling for help [and] the student receiving medical attention”. Know its edges: it does not reach fake IDs, physical harm or threats, sexual misconduct, property damage, distribution, harassment or hazing; repeat incidents “may result in higher-level review”; and skipping the education or assessment afterwards “may lead to revoked amnesty”. Ring regardless. Conduct is not the criminal law, and state law protects the caller in a drug emergency separately — Section 03.

Campus Health publishes no route to naloxone, and neither does the recovery community page, the alcohol and drugs page or the campus pharmacy page. A Tulane-hosted page titled “Where Can I Get Naloxone?” belongs to a School of Medicine student group and dates from 2023, so do not count on it. The straightforward answer is the state’s own scheme: free naloxone and fentanyl test strips from distribution sites across Louisiana, with New Orleans among the best covered places for it. Section 05 has where to go. Any pharmacy can also sell you Narcan off the shelf.

• If you land on the Case Management page headed “Crisis & After Hours Support”, ignore the “1 (800) 273-8255” printed on it — that number is retired and 988 is not on that page at all. Dial 988.
• Two Tulane pages give different after-hours Student Affairs numbers, 504-988-5900 and 504-920-9900. Save both and try them in that order if The Line is not the right door.
• The student-run SAPHE peer line is described as a 24/7 hotline and, in the same breath, as running only “during the fall and spring semesters when classes are in session” — over the summer and winter breaks, ring The Line on 504-264-6074 instead.
• The Recovery Community page on Campus Health carries no meeting times, phone number or email — the times above come from the community’s own site, so use those.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free, with no cap on how many sessions you can have — the most generous offer here. UL Lafayette puts it in capitals: “FREE!”, “offered free of charge”, and “an unlimited number of FREE mental health counseling sessions”. Being “currently registered” is the only test — there is no full-time or credit-hour gate — and staff and faculty are covered too. No charge for a missed appointment is published, though it is still worth ringing to cancel so the slot goes to somebody else. Sessions run up to 50 minutes. If you have been putting off asking because of money, this is a door that costs nothing to walk through.

Ring 833-646-1526 at any hour and a mental health professional answers. That is Uwill, 833-646-1526, and it is the simpler of the two routes. The other is University Police on 337-482-6447, and there you have to use the words: say you want to speak to the counsellor on call. Police then “will take your information and have the on-call counselor contact you”, so expect a call back rather than somebody straight away. If you just say you need help, you may be dealt with as a police matter. Keep 988 saved as well — free, and answered round the clock.

Nothing published says whether you can be seen from outside Louisiana, so ring and ask first. The counselling pages and the mental health page set no rule about where you may be sitting, and the dedicated Uwill page does not load. Uwill is the implied answer — teletherapy, crisis support and medication management are all named — but the university never states its geography either way. Ring 833-646-1526 and ask before you rely on an appointment. If you are studying from another state, Section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting.

What UL Lafayette runs for drink and drugs is education, not a recovery meeting. The programme is SLIDDE, “developed to provide educational information and programs for alcohol and all drugs”, and it is a real place to start a conversation. What there is not is a collegiate recovery community, a standing meeting, a BASICS course or a published assessment. If you want a room with other people in it, or just somebody to talk it through with first, the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free and open to anybody, and Section 02 lists meetings and treatment you can reach from Lafayette.

If you call for help, the policy protects you — the caller is the person it is clearest about. Students “can avoid informal and formal University disciplinary action” in certain conditions, and it names “minor policy violations, such as underage drinking”. Two things to know. Drugs are not named in the operative definition, and protection for the person actually receiving help “may also be extended on a case-by-case basis” at the Director’s discretion rather than automatically. Repeat use may be refused. None of that is a reason to hesitate: conduct is not the criminal law, and Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute protects the caller in a drug overdose whatever the university decides — Section 03.

UL Lafayette publishes naloxone locations across campus with building maps for the main and south campuses, and a training video — but the only way it publishes of getting a kit is a form for “University organizations and departments”, not for a student, and the kits are described as available for use rather than to take. No price is given. Section 05 has Louisiana’s free statewide scheme, which will get a kit into your hands directly, and Narcan is on the shelf at any pharmacy without a prescription.

• The words to use when you ring University Police on 337-482-6447: “I would like to speak with the counselor on call”. Saying only that you need help may get you a police response instead.
• If you are a veteran, the page prints “Call 1-800-273-8255” and that number is retired. Dial 988 and press 1 instead. The text short code on the same line, 838255, still works.
• The Crisis Text Line short code is published correctly as 741741, and 988 is published with no invented press step — both are safe to use as printed.
• Counselling is free with no limit on sessions, and each one runs up to 50 minutes.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Counselling is free, but check which half you qualify for before you book. One-to-one counselling is “confidential and at no additional charge for all enrolled, full-time students”. Group counselling is “free to all enrolled students” with “no limit on the number of group sessions”. So if you are part-time, the group door is the one that is definitely open to you — and it is worth ringing 318-257-2488 to ask about one to one rather than assuming the answer is no. No charge for a missed appointment is published. How much you get is put as an expectation rather than a rule: “most students’ needs are met in one to six appointments”.

After hours, ring campus police on 318-257-4018 and they contact a counsellor for you. Louisiana Tech puts it in one line: “Call campus police at 318-257-4018; campus police will notify a counselor on your behalf.” There is nothing to press. That is the whole of what it publishes for a bad night — no crisis line, no text line and no hospital named — so save 988 yourself now. It is free, confidential and answered round the clock, wherever you are, and it is the number to ring if you would rather not start with police. Section 02 has crisis teams covering north Louisiana.

There is no teletherapy here, so if you are studying from outside Louisiana, start with Section 02. Louisiana Tech publishes no online counselling, no vendor and therefore no rule about where you may be sitting. That means the campus route is a phone call to Ruston in office hours and, after hours, campus police. Section 02 lists crisis lines and services open to everybody, whatever you are enrolled in and wherever you are, and 988 is free and answered round the clock from any state. Ring 318-257-2488 as well and ask what they can do for a distance student, because the website will not tell you.

The only alcohol and drug support Louisiana Tech publishes is attached to a disciplinary sanction — “Alcohol and Other Drug Education and counseling for behavioral standards sanctions” — and medication management is only for students already in therapy there. You do not have to wait for that. Ring Counseling Services on 318-257-2488 and say what is going on; talking about drink or drugs is an ordinary reason to book. For help that is open to anybody, the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free and confidential, and Section 02 lists meetings and treatment near Ruston.

You cannot read Louisiana Tech’s amnesty policy from outside, so ask for it before you need it. It lives in the Student Handbook, the handbook link does not open, and the catalogue that replaces it does not contain the word amnesty — though the catalogue confirms the handbook is current, “2025-2026” and “revised on 3-16-2026”. Ask the Dean of Students for the amnesty provision in writing. And if you are deciding right now whether to ring for somebody, ring. College conduct is a separate thing from the criminal law, and Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute protects a person who calls for help in a drug overdose whatever any handbook says — Section 03.

There is no campus route to naloxone here at all — no supply, no training and no location published anywhere on the university site. Go straight to the state scheme, which costs nothing and asks nothing: Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme runs free distribution sites, and Section 05 has the map, plus free fentanyl test strips. A pharmacy can also hand you naloxone without a prescription, and Narcan is sold over the counter. Getting one in advance is an ordinary, unremarkable errand.

• Counseling Services is Keeny Hall 310, 318-257-2488 — ring to book rather than turning up, because only summer opening hours are published and they were still live in September.
• Group counselling is free to all enrolled students with no limit on the number of sessions. If you are part-time, ask about that first.
• The emergency-resources page carries headings for “Examples of crisis situations” and “Other crisis services” with nothing underneath them, so do not go there in a hurry. Save 988 and, for drink or drugs, 877-664-2248.
• Ask the Dean of Students for the medical amnesty provision in writing — the handbook link does not open, and it is better to have it before a night when it matters.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free, and it is paid for by your tuition. UNO says it twice: services are “included as a part of tuition costs for currently enrolled… students”, and “there is no charge for individual, career or group counseling”. There is no full-time or credit-hour test, and no charge for a missed appointment is published — ring to cancel anyway so somebody else can have the time. You get up to 10 sessions a semester, each about fifty minutes, usually weekly, and the work is short-term and goal-focused. You will be referred out if you need ongoing counselling without a limit, a psychiatric or psychological assessment, or “specialized treatment for substance use concerns”.

Dial 211 for ViaLink, and save the long number too. ViaLink is a named crisis operator answering round the clock, on 504-269-2673 or 1-800-749-2673 as well as 211. Save a ten-digit version, because 211 is a routed public service and dialling it from an out-of-area mobile may not reach ViaLink. For an emergency on campus, university police are on 504-280-6666. One thing to plan around: the NOPD crisis transportation UNO names runs “between noon and midnight”, so it is not there at 2am. 988 is free and answered at any hour if you need a second door.

Telehealth here is for students in Louisiana, and no alternative is published — so use Section 02. The rule is one sentence: “Telehealth services are available to LSU New Orleans students residing in Louisiana.” If you are on an online programme from another state, nothing on the counselling pages offers you a vendor or a referral route. Section 02 lists crisis lines and services that are open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any state. It is still worth ringing 504-280-6683 to ask what they can arrange, because a person may say more than the page does.

For drink and drugs UNO refers you out, so ask them where to. “Specialized treatment for substance use concerns” is named as one of the reasons Counseling Services sends a student elsewhere, and there is no recovery community, meeting or assessment published on campus. Being referred is not being turned away — ring 504-280-6683 and ask them to make the connection for you. If you would rather start on your own, the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free and confidential, and Section 02 lists meetings and treatment across New Orleans.

UNO’s written policy could not be read, so ask the Dean of Students for it in writing. The handbook index lists a Student Code of Conduct, a Student Handbook, an alcohol-and-events policy and a Drug-Free Schools notification, and the documents themselves do not open, so nobody can tell you from outside whether medical amnesty exists here or what it covers. Ask before you need it. And if you are deciding right now whether to call for somebody, call: college conduct is separate from the criminal law, and Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute protects the person who calls for help in a drug overdose regardless of what any campus policy says — Section 03.

No campus supply of naloxone is published here — nothing on the counselling or campus-resources pages, and no training. The state route is the one to use, and New Orleans is well covered for it: Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme gives out naloxone and fentanyl test strips free, with published locations and opening hours. Section 05 has the map. Narcan is also sold over the counter at pharmacies, so you can pick one up with the shopping and keep it in a bag.

• Save both counselling numbers: the appointments page gives 504-280-6683 and the student-services page gives 504-384-7924 or 888-514-4275. All are live — try the first, then the others.
• If a link to a UNO page redirects you to lsuneworleans.edu, you are in the right place. The university now styles itself LSU New Orleans, and older uno.edu links are being forwarded.
• The crisis transportation route UNO names, run by NOPD, operates noon to midnight only. Outside those hours, ViaLink on 504-269-2673 or 988.
• Counselling is weekdays 8am to 4:30pm and capped at 10 sessions a semester, so raise anything longer-term early and ask about a referral.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free to students, staff and faculty, with no full-time or credit-hour test. There is no charge for a missed appointment, but there is a consequence that matters more than a fee, so ring and cancel at least 24 hours ahead if you cannot make it: “After 2 ‘no-shows,’ the client’s counseling privileges may be suspended for the semester.” Two missed appointments is all it takes, and a phone call prevents it. No limit on the number of sessions is published either way, so ask at your first appointment. Intake takes up to 30 minutes and is not accepted after 4:30pm, or after noon on Fridays — arrive with time in hand.

Ring 833-603-0008 at any hour — it is the number to save. Southeastern publishes 833-603-0008 as its crisis line for “mental health emergencies both during and after university hours”, and there is no menu to get through. Who picks up is not published, so keep 988 alongside it — free and answered round the clock wherever you are. One instruction from the counselling centre worth following: do not email in a crisis, because “we are unable to monitor our email communications at all times”. And if you have 924-3900 written down from a Southeastern safety page, do not use it — see below.

Teletherapy exists here, and the only way to find out whether you qualify is to ring and ask. Southeastern confirms it — “The UCC offers teletherapy services” — and publishes no rule about where you may be sitting, so the question has to go to a person. Ring 985-549-3894 in office hours and ask directly whether they can see you where you are, which does mean telephoning Hammond during a Louisiana working day. Do it before you need an appointment. If the answer is no, Section 02 lists help that is open to you whatever state you are in.

Southeastern has a recovery programme, LION UP, in Room 2409 of the Student Union Annex. It exists to give “a nurturing, affirming environment in which students recovering from addictive disorders can successfully pursue academic, personal, and professional goals”, and members attend weekly seminars, “at least two recovery support meetings weekly” and programme events. What is not published is when any of those meetings happen, so ring 985-549-3894 and ask for the times and who to speak to before you go. If you want something you can use tonight, the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free, and Section 02 has meetings near Hammond.

If you seek medical help for yourself or someone else, Southeastern’s Code protects you. “Students who take reasonable action to prevent, stop, or report violations… may be protected by amnesty”, and it extends to “students who proactively seek medical help for themselves or others”. It covers drink and drugs, it covers both the caller and the person helped, and no limit on uses is published. It is also honest about its boundary: amnesty “does not prevent any actions that any law enforcement agency… may take”. That is exactly why the separate state protection matters — Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute protects the caller in a drug overdose. Make the call: Section 03.

Nothing is published about getting naloxone at Southeastern — not on the LION UP recovery pages, not in the Code, not anywhere. So use the state scheme, which is free and open to anybody: Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme runs distribution sites with a locator map, and gives out fentanyl test strips as well. Section 05 has how to find your nearest. A pharmacy can also supply naloxone without a prescription, and Narcan sits on the shelf over the counter.

• If you have 924-3900 written down from Southeastern’s campus safety page, do not use it — it does not reach a crisis line, and it is printed with no area code on a campus in the 985 area. Ring Southeastern’s own 24-hour line, 833-603-0008, and 988 is free and answered round the clock wherever you are.
• That same safety page labels University Police as “CRISIS – 985-549-2222” and does not carry the counselling crisis line at all. Police are a real route in an emergency, but they are not the counselling service.
• Do not email the counselling centre when things are bad: it says plainly that email is not monitored at all times. Ring 985-549-3894 instead.
• Intake takes up to 30 minutes and is not accepted after 4:30pm, or after noon on a Friday, so leave enough of the day for it.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

The two online services are free; for seeing somebody in person, ring and ask the price. Togetherall is “available 24/7/365” and “FREE for students ages 16+”, and BetterMynd gives “FREE 50-minute online therapy sessions and a 24/7 on-demand crisis support line”, with no number of sessions attached. Neither counselling page states a fee for in-person counselling, or says it is free, and no limit on sessions is published, so put both questions to 225-771-2480 when you book. No charge for a missed appointment is published. Separately, the pre-paid student health fee covers visits and pharmacy, but not immunisations or contraceptives. Section 06 covers paying.

Ring 225-368-9602 at any hour. That is the 24/7 crisis hotline run by Holistic Behavioral Health Services, and Southern is one of the few colleges here that tells you who is on the other end, publishing the provider’s own office number and website alongside it. No press step is published. If you would rather not use the phone, BetterMynd has a 24/7 on-demand crisis support line through the app and Togetherall is open at any hour, both free. And 988 is free, confidential and answered round the clock from anywhere, if none of those is the right door tonight.

Nothing published says whether you can be seen from outside Louisiana — but the two online services may reach you. Neither counselling page sets a geographic rule. BetterMynd and Togetherall are open to the whole Southern University System on an SUS email address, with no stated geography, so they are the obvious things to try if you are studying from another state — Southern simply never says one way or the other. Ring 225-771-2480 and ask before you rely on an appointment with a campus counsellor. Section 02 lists help open to you wherever you are sitting.

Southern publishes no substance use service for students, so the counselling centre is where to start. It takes walk-ins daily and offers individual and group therapy, and drink or drugs is an ordinary thing to bring to it — ring 225-771-2480 or turn up weekdays 8 to 5. What is not published is a recovery community, a meeting, a course or an assessment; searches of the university site return its degree programmes in counselling and social work rather than a service. For something open to you now, the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free and confidential, and Section 02 lists meetings and treatment across Baton Rouge.

If you call for help, Southern’s Code of Student Conduct protects you, and it covers drink as well as drugs. Revised in July 2025, it “recognizes the need for emergency response amnesty… in certain alcohol, drug, physical, and emotional distress related emergencies”, and it names both a student seeking medical attention for themselves and a student seeking it for somebody else. There is no limit on uses. It will not cover other violations in the same incident, and afterwards you are asked to have an educational conversation and an assessment. One gap to know: it does not say in terms that the person receiving help is protected when a bystander calls. Call anyway — state law protects the caller in a drug overdose: Section 03.

Southern publishes no naloxone service, and neither its student health centre nor its Code mentions it. The health centre does run its own pharmacy, though, and Narcan is sold over the counter, so that is one place to ask. The simpler route is the state one: Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme hands out naloxone and fentanyl test strips free from distribution sites across Baton Rouge and the rest of the state, with a locator map and published opening hours. Section 05 has it.

• If you see “1-800-273-8255” on the counselling centre front page, dial 988 instead — it is printed right beside it and it is the line that is still running.
• Southern publishes the Louisiana Department of Health with a number on a student-facing crisis page, along with Louisiana 211 and the state veterans department — useful if you want a state service rather than a campus one.
• It also prints “Louisiana Mental Health Crisis Counseling: 1-866-310-7977” and “text REACHOUT to 741741”. The text route works. The 866 line dates from the pandemic, so if it does not answer, use 988 — Section 02 explains.
• Togetherall is free for students aged 16 and over and open 24/7/365; BetterMynd gives free 50-minute online therapy sessions. Both need an SUS email address to register, so set that up before a bad week.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free to every currently enrolled student, with no full-time or credit-hour test. No charge for a missed appointment is published, and no cancellation window either — but ring if you cannot come, because the consequence is a wait: students who fail to show may “have to reschedule… and wait some time for that appointment”. How much you get is described rather than counted, as “Short-term Individual Therapy” and “Short-term Couples Therapy”, so ask at your first appointment what happens if you need longer. Staff and faculty are not eligible for counselling here, only students. Section 06 covers paying for care beyond the campus.

Ring 318-274-2222 at any hour and say you need the on-call counsellor. That is GSU Police on 318-274-2222, and Grambling gives the exact instruction: “inform campus police that you need to speak with the on call counselor”. It reaches Grambling’s own clinician, who is on call for after-hours and weekend emergencies. There is no press step. A hospital is named too, which most colleges here do not do: “go directly to the Northern Louisiana Medical Center’s Emergency Room”. Grambling publishes no 988 on its counselling pages, so save it yourself — 988 is free and answered round the clock.

Nothing is published about being seen from outside Louisiana, so ring and ask before you count on it. No Grambling counselling page mentions teletherapy, licensure or state lines, and no alternative is offered in its place. That makes the phone call to 318-274-3277 the only way to find out what is possible where you are — make it before you need an appointment rather than during one. If you are studying at a distance, Section 02 lists crisis lines and services open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any state.

Grambling PAWS is a real recovery programme, and it sits inside the counselling centre. Prevention, Awareness & Wellness “embraces evidence-based practices and supports students’ decisions to engage in a lifestyle of recovery”, with “ongoing support services and recovery support groups”, and it works with the Louisiana Department of Health, Florida Parishes Human Services Authority, Southeastern Louisiana University and other Louisiana collegiate recovery programmes. What it does not publish is when the groups meet, so ring 318-274-3277 and ask for the day, the time and the room before you go. The Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free if you would rather talk it through first.

If you seek medical help for yourself or someone else, Grambling grants you amnesty. The Code of Student Conduct and the 2025-2026 handbook both say the conduct office “will grant amnesty to Students who proactively seek medical help for themselves or others” where the student may have been involved in “underage drinking or other improper use of alcohol or drugs”. So it covers drink and drugs, both of you, with no numeric limit. Know the edges: distribution, arson, theft and “more severe” violations are excluded, and it does not stop the police doing their job. Call anyway — state law protects the caller in a drug overdose separately: Section 03.

No campus route to naloxone is published at Grambling — not on the PAWS recovery pages, the counselling pages or the conduct pages. The state scheme is free and open to anybody, and it is the one to use: Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme runs distribution sites with a locator map and gives out fentanyl test strips as well. Section 05 has how to find your nearest. A pharmacy can supply naloxone without a prescription, and Narcan is sold over the counter, so you can have a kit in a drawer this week.

• Grambling’s own pages disagree about which number is the 24-hour one. Save both: 318-274-2222 for GSU Police, who reach the on-call therapist, and 318-274-3277 for the Counseling Center.
• Check where you are going before you set out. Three pages put the centre at the Foster-Johnson Health Center and one says Nursing Building Room 219, and four pages give three different sets of opening hours.
• 988 does not appear on the counselling pages, so save it yourself. What Grambling publishes instead is a parish hotline, 318-255-7273, with no hours attached.
• The named hospital for an emergency is the Northern Louisiana Medical Center Emergency Room.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free, and your course load makes no difference. Loyola puts it simply: “All counseling services are provided without charge”, for undergraduate, graduate and law students alike, and eligibility runs “regardless of course load”. No charge for a missed appointment and no cancellation window are published, though it is worth ringing to cancel so the slot goes to somebody else. There is no numeric cap; what is published is a rhythm, “appointments for regular counseling are typically every other week”. The one condition to check is where you live: eligibility is written for students “living in the state of Louisiana”, and the next row explains what happens if you are not.

Ring 504-865-3835 and press 1. That reaches the counsellor on call, and Loyola says what you get: “a counselor is on-call… 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year” and, elsewhere, “a licensed mental health professional” — its own clinician, not an outside call centre. Loyola publishes two versions of that number, so save both: 504-865-3835 and press 1 is on most of its pages, and 504-865-3854 is on the patient portal. Try the first, then the second. Residence-life community directors are also on call through LUPD on 504-865-3434.

If you are outside Louisiana, Loyola will find you a counsellor where you are — ask for it. The rule and the remedy are published together: “Remote counseling is regulated by state licensing requirements that restrict providing remote counseling outside of the state of Louisiana. If you are in need of counseling services and live outside of Louisiana, the UCC will provide case management services to connect you with a local counselor in your state of residence.” Almost nobody else here offers that second half, so use it. One thing to know: the page titled “Remote Services” does not mention the restriction, so ask on 504-865-3835 rather than assuming.

One to one counselling about drink or drugs is open to any enrolled student — that is the door. Ring 504-865-3835 and say what is going on. Loyola has also canvassed interest in “a counseling group for students centered on substance use harm reduction, which may be offered on a semester basis”, so ask whether it is running this term rather than waiting for it to appear. The centre will help you find outpatient or inpatient programmes and support groups locally. For meetings you can walk into now, Section 02 lists them, and the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free and confidential.

Call for help and neither of you is normally charged — and it reaches non-students too. The policy is written for medical emergencies: “When a student reports an incident to obtain medical assistance for themselves, another student, or another individual, neither the reporting student nor the student needing medical attention will typically face disciplinary charges for minor violations.” There are three things to do, and they are published as a checklist: call for help, wait for help to arrive, and “cooperate fully once help arrives”. Amnesty may be refused where there is “a significant history of misconduct”, and “minor” is left undefined. Make the call regardless — state law protects the caller in a drug overdose: Section 03.

Loyola publishes no way to get naloxone on campus — nothing on the counselling pages, the substance use risk reduction page, the after-hours page or the amnesty page. Louisiana’s own scheme is free and simpler anyway: the state runs naloxone distribution sites with a locator map, New Orleans is among the better covered places for it, and free fentanyl test strips come through the same programme. Section 05 has where to go. Narcan is also sold over the counter, so a pharmacy on the way home will do.

• Two numbers for the counsellor on call, both live. Save both: 504-865-3835 then press 1, which four Loyola pages give, and 504-865-3854, which the patient portal gives. Try the first one first.
• If you would rather text than talk, Loyola publishes three short codes and all of them are correct: HOME to 741741, STEVE to 741741, and Trevor’s START to 678678.
• The after-hours page still prints “National Suicide Prevention Lifeline… 1-800-273-TALK (8255)”. Dial 988 instead — it is the line that is still running.
• Loyola publishes that its counsellors are trained in CAMS, a suicide-care model — if you are ringing about suicidal thoughts, this is a service that has specifically prepared for that conversation.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free: “All Xavier University Counseling Services are free to enrolled students.” Being enrolled is the only test — there is no full-time or credit-hour gate. You get up to 12 sessions of individual therapy an academic year, and there is also a one-off “Single Session Visit” if you want to talk something through without starting a course of therapy; Xavier does not say whether that counts against the twelve, so ask. No charge for a missed appointment is published, and the telehealth page says only that attendance follows “the same guidelines… as face-to-face counseling policies”, so ask what those are when you book. Section 06 covers paying.

Save 988 now, because Xavier publishes no counsellor you can reach at 2am. 988 is free, confidential and answered round the clock wherever you are. The campus route is 504-520-7490, Xavier University Police, or 911 in an emergency — there is no published counsellor-on-call rota and no vendor. One trap to know about: “Ochsner on Call” on 1-800-231-5257 is an after-hours nurse line running 5pm to 8am, not a mental health line. Five hospitals and five urgent cares are published with numbers, on the medical page rather than the counselling one.

If you are out of state, Xavier offers phone consultations — ring and ask for one. “Phone consultations are offered to out-of-state students to provide immediate support”, and the service will refer you to providers where you are. What it cannot tell you clearly is whether video counselling can follow you, because the rule on the telehealth page is still written around the pandemic and prospective law changes that are not described. So do not try to work it out from the page — ring 504-520-7315 and ask. Section 02 lists help open to you wherever you are sitting.

For drink or drugs, Counseling Services is the door — it offers “alcohol and other drug counseling and referrals”. Ring 504-520-7315 and say what is going on; XULA Well runs education on substance use, addiction and suicide prevention alongside it. There is no recovery community, standing meeting or published assessment on campus, so if you want a room with other people in it, Section 02 has meetings near New Orleans and the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free. One thing not to search for: Xavier’s “Drug Information Center” is a College of Pharmacy service for health professionals, not a service for you.

Xavier’s amnesty policy cannot be read from outside, so ask the Dean of Students for it in writing. The policies page describes a “Drug and Alcohol Abuse Policy” without publishing its text, and the most recent general handbook findable is the 2020-2021 edition, whose contents list includes “Amnesty for Reporting Individuals” — the section itself does not open, so nobody can tell you whether it covers medical emergencies. Ask before you need it. And if you are deciding right now whether to call for somebody, call: conduct is separate from the criminal law, and Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute protects the caller in a drug overdose whatever a handbook says — Section 03.

Nothing is published about getting naloxone at Xavier, on the wellness pages, the counselling pages, the policies page or the pharmacy handbook. Use the state route, which asks nothing of you: Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme gives out naloxone and fentanyl test strips free from distribution sites, with a locator map and published opening hours, and New Orleans is well covered. Section 05 has it. Narcan is also sold over the counter at pharmacies, so you can buy one without explaining yourself to anybody.

• If you land on Xavier’s “Crisis Support” page, do not use the “1-800-273-TALK (8255)” printed on it — that number is retired and 988 is not on that page at all. Dial 988, and there is no campus text route published, so save that too.
• “Ochsner on Call”, 1-800-231-5257, is an after-hours nurse line, 5pm to 8am. It is genuinely useful for a physical health worry at night, but it is not a mental health line.
• Ring before you walk over: three Xavier sources give three different sets of opening hours for counselling, one of them from the 2020-2021 handbook. The number is 504-520-7315.
• No clinicians are named on the counselling pages and the wellness office publishes only an email address, so use the phone rather than trying to reach a particular person.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free, and there is no limit on how many sessions you can have. Nicholls publishes both: “Counseling and all other UCC services are free of charge” to students, staff and faculty, and “There is no limit to the number of counseling sessions you can attend as long as you are a registered student, faculty or staff member.” Sessions run 45 minutes. The one rule to take seriously is cancelling: ring at least 24 hours ahead if you cannot make it, because “If you miss three appointments in one semester without calling to cancel, you will not be allowed to attend counseling at the UCC for the remainder of that semester.” A phone call keeps the door open.

Save 988 now, and use 985-448-4911 for an emergency on campus. 988 is free, confidential and answered round the clock wherever you are. The only after-hours route Nicholls publishes is University Police on 985-448-4911, and it does not say whether a counsellor is on call or what happens after you ring — so expect a police response rather than a clinician, and have 988 ready as well. No hospital or emergency room is named either. Section 02 has the regional crisis line covering Thibodaux, which sends out a team.

If you are studying at a distance, ring the counselling centre and they will find you somebody local. Nicholls publishes that route plainly: “Distance Learners who are not able to utilize face-to-face services should call the University Counseling Center for assistance in locating an appropriate mental health professional in their geographical area.” The number is 985-448-4080. What it does not publish is any rule about state lines, while the main page advertises “Teletherapy (requires webcam and internet)” with no geographic condition — so ask whether they can see you where you are before you book rather than after. Section 02 lists help open to you anywhere.

Nicholls publishes almost nothing for drink and drugs, so here is where to start instead. The only mention on the counselling pages is a line on a list of topics, “Address drinking/drug use issues”, and there is no alcohol or drug screening among the screenings offered, no recovery meeting and no assessment. You can still raise it at the counselling centre on 985-448-4080, and it is an ordinary thing to bring. Beyond campus, the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free, confidential and open to anybody, and Section 02 lists meetings and treatment you can reach from Thibodaux.

Nicholls publishes no amnesty policy — but the law still protects you, so make the call. Its alcohol policy governs events and possession, and there is no Good Samaritan clause and nothing for a student seeking medical assistance; the word amnesty appears once in its conduct rules and it is about recordings. That leaves Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute, which protects the person who calls for help in a drug overdose from charge and prosecution — that is the criminal law, and it applies whatever your college publishes. It does not cover alcohol, and Nicholls publishes no alcohol protection of its own, so know that going in and ring anyway: Section 03.

There is no campus route to naloxone here — no supply, no training and no location published. The state scheme is the answer and it costs nothing: Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme runs free naloxone distribution sites with a locator map, and free fentanyl test strips come through the same programme. Section 05 has how to find your nearest one. Any pharmacy can supply naloxone without a prescription, and Narcan is on the shelf over the counter, so a kit is an easy thing to have before you need it.

• One number on Nicholls’s national hotline list, “(855) 834.9918 Alcohol Rehab Guide”, belongs to a private company rather than a helpline. Use 988, or the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248, which is free.
• The only text route published is “Text COALITION to 741741”, aimed at Black students. The short code is correct and anybody can text 741741, so use it if texting is easier than talking.
• The Counseling Center is 252 Elkins Hall, 985-448-4080, with 45-minute sessions and no limit on how many you can have.
• Ring to cancel: three missed appointments in a semester without a phone call and you cannot be seen there again until the next one.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free at the point of use, paid for by student health fees. McNeese states it plainly: “All currently enrolled McNeese students are eligible for treatment at no charge at the time of service.” There is no full-time or credit-hour test, no charge for a missed appointment is published, and no limit on sessions is published either — the only quantity given is that appointments run 45 to 50 minutes. One thing to get right before you go: the Kay Doré Counseling Clinic on the same campus is a community clinic charging “a flat rate of $20 per session”, not the student service. Ring 337-475-5136 for the free one. Section 06 covers paying.

Ring 337-562-4911 and ask for the on-call counsellor. McNeese publishes what happens next: “In case of an emergency on evenings, weekends, or holidays, call University Police… to reach an on-call counselor, call 911, or go to the nearest emergency room.” So police are the switchboard and a McNeese clinician is on the other end. There is no press step and no outside vendor. No hospital is named, only “the nearest emergency room”, and no national crisis number appears on the counselling pages — so save 988 yourself, free and answered round the clock wherever you are.

Nothing published says whether you can be seen from outside Louisiana, so ring and ask before you travel. Virtual sessions are advertised with no geographic condition attached, and no McNeese page sets a rule about state lines or licensure, which means the only way to get a straight answer is a phone call to 337-475-5136. Ask before you rely on an appointment, not in the week you need one. If the answer is no, Section 02 lists crisis lines and services open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any state.

Substance use is not on the counselling centre’s published list, so say so when you ring. What the centre lists is individual, family and group counselling and work on “stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma, and grief”; drink and drugs are handled through referral, and where a sanction sends a student to a rehabilitation programme, that programme is not named. Ask on 337-475-5136 who they refer to and what it costs. Meanwhile the Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free, confidential and open to anybody, and Section 02 lists meetings and treatment near Lake Charles.

McNeese’s amnesty is the broadest here, and it protects four different people. Under the heading “Amnesty Program”, protection from alcohol and drug conduct violations runs to a bystander reporting sexual violence in good faith; a victim or survivor reporting it; “a bystander in good faith seeking medical assistance for someone else with significant intoxication of alcohol or other substances”; and “a victim seeking medical assistance for themselves”. No exclusions are stated and no limit on uses. The only soft edge is the word “significant”, which is left undefined — so do not try to judge it yourself. Ring for help: state law protects the caller in a drug overdose too, Section 03.

McNeese publishes no naloxone supply or training, and it appears in neither its alcohol and drug policy nor its prevention programme. Louisiana’s state scheme is free and open to anybody: the overdose prevention programme runs distribution sites with a locator map and gives out fentanyl test strips as well, and Section 05 has how to find one. A pharmacy can also supply naloxone without a prescription and Narcan is sold over the counter, so you can pick a kit up in Lake Charles this week.

• Two counselling services on one campus, and only one is free. The free student service is the Counseling Center, 337-475-5136; the Kay Doré Counseling Clinic is a community clinic for five parishes at $20 a session.
• McNeese publishes no 988 and no text line on its counselling or student-resources pages, so save 988 yourself before you need it.
• Appointments run 45 to 50 minutes and no cap on the number of sessions is published — ask at the first one what they expect.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free: “All counseling services are FREE OF CHARGE”. That covers undergraduate, graduate and professional students, and faculty and staff as well, with no full-time or credit-hour test to pass. No charge for a missed appointment and no cancellation window are published, though ringing to cancel still frees the slot for somebody else. No limit on the number of sessions is published either — no figure and no “short-term” qualifier — so ask at your first appointment what they expect, and ask too what happens if you need longer-term work. Section 06 covers paying for care beyond the campus.

Ring 318-342-5350 at any hour and a counsellor responds. That is University Police on 318-342-5350, and ULM publishes what happens next in four words: “a counselor will respond immediately”. It is ULM’s own clinician, with no outside vendor and no press step. 988 is published alongside it and is the one number on the page you can dial and reach a clinician directly, so save that too. A named medical centre with a sexual assault nurse examiner is published for sexual assault; no general psychiatric emergency room is named, so ask where to go if you need one.

Nothing published says whether you can be seen from outside Louisiana, so ring and ask first. ULM offers an online telecounselling request form, but it sets no rule about state lines or licensure and offers no alternative for a student who is physically somewhere else. That makes the phone call to 318-342-5220 the only way to find out — do it before you need the appointment. If the answer is no, Section 02 lists crisis lines and services open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 is free and answered round the clock from any state.

ULM runs a Substance Abuse Recovery Program, and you can refer yourself to it. A specialist works on alcohol and drug issues through “individualized assessment, counseling, referrals, and groups”, and the substance abuse assessment is there “to help students determine the nature and extent of their alcohol or other drug use” — you do not need the Dean, residential life, athletics or Title IX to send you. Ring 318-342-5220 and ask for it. Two things to ask about on the call: the assessment’s price is not published, and anything more intensive is referred on “at the expense of the student”. The groups have no published schedule, so ask when they meet.

ULM publishes two versions of its amnesty, so ask the Dean of Students which one applies. The current 2025-26 Code of Student Conduct contains no medical amnesty at all, while the catalogue still carries an “Alcohol Medical Amnesty Policy” written to “remove barriers and increase the likelihood that students who require emergency medical assistance… will receive such assistance”. That older policy is alcohol only, covers the person needing care “only once while enrolled”, is unlimited for somebody helping another student, and requires a meeting afterwards. Both are live. None of that should stop you dialling: Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute protects the caller in a drug overdose whatever the university does — Section 03.

No naloxone supply or training is published at ULM, and it appears in neither the current Code nor the Drug-Free Schools notification. Louisiana’s own scheme is free and open to anybody: the state overdose prevention programme runs distribution sites with a locator map, and free fentanyl test strips come through the same programme. Section 05 has how to find your nearest. A pharmacy can also supply naloxone without a prescription, and Narcan is sold over the counter.

• ULM’s emergencies page lists “National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255” as an item of its own next to 988. It is the same service under a retired number — dial 988.
• It also publishes the Louisiana Crisis Hub on 855-242-2735. The number is a real state line; the website printed beside it no longer works, so use the phone — Section 02 has more.
• The Counseling Center is at 1140 University Avenue, 318-342-5220, and the Substance Abuse Recovery Program is reached through it by self-referral.
• Ask about the price of a substance abuse assessment when you book: it is not published, and anything more intensive is referred on at your own expense.

If none of these gets you anywhere: 988 for a crisis, 877-664-2248 for drink or drugs, 877-770-7867 for gambling. All free, all answered around the clock, and open to you whatever college you are at.

Free when you use it, because you have already paid for it in fees. LSUS publishes the mechanism: a Student Health and Wellness fee of “$5 per credit hour”, with “no additional cost when scheduling an appointment”. No charge for a missed appointment and no cancellation window are published. Its own counselling is described as “short-term solution-focused” rather than capped at a number. The vendor is capped at 12 sessions a year, and that figure appears in a news article rather than on the service page, tied there to in-person students — so if you are studying online, ask 318-797-5365 what you are entitled to. Section 06 covers paying.

Register with TimelyCare now, and save 988 tonight. LSUS publishes no campus crisis number and no opening hours for its own office, so the two routes for a bad night are 988 — free and answered round the clock — and TimelyCare, the university’s vendor, whose 24/7 crisis support is reached by app or web after you register with your student email. There is no phone number published for it, which means registering in advance rather than at 2am. Do that this week; it takes a few minutes now and saves you a form when you are least able to fill one in.

You can be seen if you are physically in Louisiana on the day of the appointment. LSUS words it precisely: “Due to state licensure, this service is limited to those physically present within the state of Louisiana during time of appointment.” It is where you are that day, not where you live. If you are elsewhere, there are one-time consultations by request and TimelyCare — though LSUS does not state where the vendor can reach you, so ask on 318-797-5365. Section 02 lists crisis lines and services open to you wherever you are sitting.

LSUS refers you out for drink and drugs, and it has a list of local services to give you. Substance use is not among the things the counselling page lists, but its Drug-Free Schools notification describes SMART Recovery and names five community numbers for Shreveport-area services — ring 318-797-5365 and ask for that list rather than hunting for it. There is no recovery meeting on campus, no course and no published assessment. The Louisiana Substance Use Helpline on 877-664-2248 is free, confidential and open to anybody, and Section 02 lists meetings and treatment in Shreveport.

If you call for help, LSUS’s policy covers you — and it covers you calling for somebody else. Medical amnesty applies to “alcohol, drug, physical, and emotional distress” emergencies and names three callers: “a Student seeking medical attention for themselves”, “a Student seeking medical attention on behalf of another Student”, and “an RSO seeking medical attention for a Student”. It is the same policy the rest of the LSU system uses, and the Code carrying it is dated February 2023. Make the call: a conduct policy is not the criminal law, and Louisiana’s Good Samaritan statute protects the caller in a drug overdose separately — Section 03.

LSUS publishes no naloxone supply or training, so use the state route, which is free. Louisiana’s overdose prevention programme runs distribution sites with a locator map, and Shreveport also has a syringe services programme that hands out naloxone and fentanyl test strips free with published opening hours — Section 05 has both. A pharmacy can supply naloxone without a prescription too, and Narcan is sold over the counter, so there is more than one easy way to have a kit before you need one.

• Register with TimelyCare using your student email before you need it. Crisis support is by app or web, there is no phone number published for it, and registering at 2am is the last thing you will want to do.
• The vendor’s cap of 12 sessions a year is published in a news release rather than on the service page, and tied there to in-person students. Ask what your entitlement is when you start.
• Counseling Services is NML 141, 318-797-5365. No opening hours are published, so ring before you walk over.
• The Drug-Free Schools notification describes SMART Recovery and lists five community numbers for Shreveport-area services — ask for it if you want local options.

The Bridge Center for Hope — Baton Rouge

3455 Florida Street, Baton Rouge · 225-256-6604 · open 24 hours a day, seven days a week · anyone aged 18 or over.

“No insurance? No referral? No problem.” Those are its own words, alongside “No Referral Required” and “No one is ever turned away. Whether you walk in, come with a loved one, or arrive with first responders — you’ll be met with compassion.”

If you are at LSU or Southern, this is the address to know — and LSU publishes it on its own emergency page.

If you are weighing it up in the moment

Ring anyway. The worst realistic outcome of a conduct process is a conversation and an education session. The worst outcome of not calling is not recoverable.

And if you would rather not involve your college at all, 911 and the numbers in Section 02 do not report to your dean. Section 08 sets out who can be told what.

What a good campus route looks like — UL Lafayette

“UL Lafayette has Narcan Kits available for use across campus, in addition to University Police”, published with building maps and a training video so you can see where the kits are and how to use one.

The route it publishes for getting hold of one is a form for “University organizations and departments”, rather than for an individual student, and the kits are described as available for use rather than to take away. So even here, the state’s map is the surer way to have one of your own.

You do not have to be in the VA system to use it

“You don’t have to be enrolled in VA benefits or health care to connect.”

That is the line’s own wording, and it is the thing student veterans most often get wrong. If you have been telling yourself that number is for somebody else, it is not. And if you are holding an old 1-800-273-8255 card, dial 988 and press 1 instead — the 838255 text code is still right.