Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Free at the point of use — nothing to pay and no insurance to hand over. UTK puts it plainly: “There are no out-of-pocket costs or insurance costs for counseling services… The Student Program and Services Fee funds our services.” You do not need a minimum number of credit hours, and no charge for a missed appointment is published — it is still worth ringing to cancel so somebody else can have the slot. How much you get is described rather than counted: single-session and short-term work, and the centre says it “cannot offer long-term therapy services”. Ask at your first appointment what that means for you and what happens afterwards. Section 06 covers paying for care off campus.

Ring 865-974-2196 at any hour. It is the ordinary daytime number and it doubles as the night one: “After hours, you can call our number to speak with a mental health professional with our on-call service.” The number is 865-974-2196. No press step is published, so listen through whatever menu you get rather than guessing. Who answers is not named, so ask in the first minute whether you are speaking to a counsellor. They can talk things through but cannot book your follow-up, so ring again in the morning. UTK prints a second emergency line elsewhere, 865-974-HELP (4357) — save both, and 988 as well.

UTK does not say whether it can see you from outside Tennessee, so ring and ask before you travel. Nothing on the home page, the booking page, the services page or the crisis page sets a licensure rule either way, and no out-of-state teletherapy service is named. Put the question to 865-974-2196 before a semester away or before you count on an appointment from another state, rather than finding out in the week you need one. If the answer is no, section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone in the country.

Six meetings a week, every one with a day, a time and a room, and you can simply turn up. Rocky Top Recovery runs all of them in Student Health Center Room 201: Mondays 5–6pm, Tuesdays 1–2pm, Wednesdays 5–6pm, Thursdays 10–11am, Fridays 4:30–5:30pm and 6–7:30pm. Walking into a first meeting is a hard door; knowing the room number in advance helps. If you would rather ask something before you go, ring 865-974-5725. There is also a one-hour Recovery Ally Training if you want to be useful to somebody else. For drink or drugs at any hour, the TN REDLINE is 800-889-9789.

Call for help and you are protected — and so is the person you called about. UTK’s wording: “Amnesty means no formal disciplinary action is taken when a good Samaritan (1) contacts appropriate resources to report and request assistance and (2) demonstrates cooperation and care by remaining with the impaired student.” It covers drink and drugs, it covers both of you, and no limit on how many times you can use it is published. So stay with them and say what was taken. The policy does not mention the state statute, which changes nothing for you: a conduct policy is not the criminal law, and Tennessee law protects the caller separately. Make the call.

UTK publishes nowhere on campus to get naloxone, so sort a kit out yourself now rather than on the night. There is no counter, no cabinet and no residence-hall kit on any of its pages. Tennessee makes the alternative free and simple: your Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist hands out naloxone and training at no cost, every county is covered, and the state publishes names and direct numbers. Narcan also sits on pharmacy shelves over the counter, no prescription and no conversation needed. Section 05 has both routes. Narcan training has run at UTK as a one-off event with Metro Drug Coalition, so ask Student Health when the next one is.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

You have already paid for this in your fees, so there is nothing to hand over at the door. Eligibility runs to students “who are charged and have paid the required fees” — the Student Support Fee for undergraduates, the Student Health Fee for graduate and professional students, mandatory and non-waivable. No missed-appointment charge is published, though ring to cancel so somebody else can have the slot. Therapy is described as “time-limited and goal-orientated” with no number attached, so ask at your first appointment how many sessions you have. One hard date to know: if you stop being enrolled, transitional care lasts no more than 21 days.

Ring 615-322-2571 and press 1. That covers nights, weekends and holidays, and it reaches “a behavioral health on-call provider”. The number is 615-322-2571. Vanderbilt writes the press step three slightly different ways across its pages; it is 1 in every one of them. The call goes through an answering service Vanderbilt does not name, so ask in the first minute whether you are speaking to a clinician. If you need somewhere to go rather than someone to talk to, Vanderbilt names its Psychiatric Hospital and the Vanderbilt Health emergency room. 988 and “Text VANDY to 741741” are published too, and both work.

Vanderbilt is clearer about this than almost anyone, so you can plan around it. For therapy and psychiatry you “must be physically located in the state of Tennessee”, because its clinicians have to “remain compliant with state licensure requirements”. Unusually, it also says what you get instead: referral to local or telehealth services where you are, plus Vanderbilt Telehealth, the counselling centre, social work and Project Safe for online learners. Ring 615-322-2571 before a semester away and ask them to set that referral up in advance. Section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting.

There is a real recovery programme here, but no meeting you can simply turn up to — so ring first. Vanderbilt Recovery Support is “a collegiate recovery program… for students who are concerned about their alcohol or other drug misuse and those actively in recovery”, with two named staff and a direct line on 615-343-4740. It runs “recovery meetings and individual coaching appointments”, and the days and rooms go to an events page rather than being printed, so ring and ask what is on this week. Asking is a small thing, and it is all that stands between you and the room. TN REDLINE: 800-889-9789.

Call for help — and Vanderbilt tells you the law is on your side too. A student seeking medical attention “for intoxication or overdose may be eligible for immunity for the use or underage possession of alcohol or other drugs”, and “immunity extends to individuals seeking help for another student”. It cites T.C.A. § 63-1-156 by section, which almost no college does. Two conditions: the emergency has to be how staff found out, and you engage in good faith afterwards. It does not wipe out responsibility if you supplied what was taken. Ring anyway — state law protects the caller whatever the conduct process decides.

Vanderbilt publishes no way for a student to get naloxone, so get a kit of your own — it is free and takes one phone call. Nothing appears in the alcohol and controlled-substances policy, on the recovery pages or at the wellbeing centre. Your Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist in Davidson County gives out naloxone and training for nothing, and the state publishes their name, direct number and email. Narcan is also sold over the counter with no prescription and no conversation at all. Section 05 sets out both. Vanderbilt tells you the law protects you for calling; this is the other half of being ready.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Sessions themselves have no published price. What costs money is not turning up. MTSU is blunt: “a $10 missed appointment fee will be charged to your student account”, avoidable by cancelling “at least 12 hours before… or as soon as you are able in case of an emergency”. So ring 615-898-2670 the moment you know, because the charge is about the empty slot, not about you. You get “approximately six weekly sessions, each lasting 50 minutes”. MTSU also says what it does not do: no long-term therapy, no ADHD evaluations, no couples or family work, no ESA letters. Section 06 covers care off campus.

MTSU tells you straight that it has nobody of its own to ring at night: “MTSU Counseling Services does not provide after hours on-call.” That is honest, and it means you should put these in your phone now rather than during a bad night. 988 is free and answered around the clock. Mobile Crisis on 1-800-704-2651 will come out to you. University Police are on 615-898-2424, 911 brings an ambulance, and the emergency room is at St Thomas Rutherford. None of them needs a press step. For drink or drugs, the TN REDLINE is 800-889-9789.

Nothing is published about being seen from outside Tennessee, so ring and ask. The counselling home page, the services page and both crisis pages set no licensure rule either way, and no out-of-state teletherapy service is named. If you study remotely, or you are heading home for a semester, ring 615-898-2670 and ask whether they can see you where you will be before you count on an appointment. If they cannot, section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone in the country.

There is no substance-use service of MTSU’s own, and the route in is in person. The university says students “can reach out to campus staff or visit Counseling Services, located in Keathley University Center, room 326-S”. Ring 615-898-2670 first so you are not walking in cold. If you want to know where you stand before speaking to anybody, Alcohol e-Check Up to Go is an online screener you can do on your own, privately. For anything more, the TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789 is free, confidential and answered at any hour, and will find you a meeting or an assessment near Murfreesboro.

If you call for help, MTSU does not put you through the conduct process for it. A student under the influence “should not be reluctant to seek assistance in the event of a health or safety emergency for fear of being sanctioned”, and the protection reaches witnesses as well as the person who needs help, for drink and for drugs, with no limit on uses. Read one line and then read past it: the policy says it “does not grant amnesty for criminal, civil, or legal consequences”. That is about what MTSU can promise, not about what the law does. Tennessee law protects the caller from arrest and charge separately, so make the call.

MTSU does give out free overdose response kits — but the only way to ask is by email, so send it today and order a kit meanwhile. Health Promotion advertises “Free Condoms, HIV Testing, and Overdose Response Kits”, with the request going to one named member of staff; no counter, opening hours or residence-hall cabinet is published. In the meantime the state route is quicker: the Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist for Rutherford County supplies naloxone and training free, with a direct number published, and Narcan is on pharmacy shelves over the counter. Section 05 has both.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Counselling itself is free or close to it; testing is where money appears, and those prices are published. “Psychodiagnostic/Personality assessments are $150 and ADHD/Learning Disorder testing are between $400–$500”, and $750 if you are not a student. You get six individual or couples sessions per academic semester. Two rules to plan around. You must be enrolled in at least 6 credit hours in autumn or spring, so if you are part-time, ring and ask what you can still use. And turn up on time: 20 minutes late and you are turned away, 15 at the health centre. Section 06 covers paying for care off campus.

Ring 901-678-2068 and dial 2. That is the “Tiger Care Line” crisis counsellor, and it is the clearest night-time instruction of any college on this page — one number, one keystroke, printed the same way on two Memphis pages. The number is 901-678-2068, and it is worth saving now while things are calm. Memphis does not say whether the person answering is its own staff or contracted, so ask in the first minute whether you are speaking to a counsellor. If somebody is in immediate danger, campus police are on 901-678-4357. 988 is free and answered around the clock.

Nothing is published about being seen from outside Tennessee, so ask before you rely on it. The counselling pages, the appointments page and the health-and-counselling FAQ set no location rule, and although a telehealth waiting-room link is published, no state list comes with it. Ring 901-678-2068 and ask directly whether they can see you where you will be. Ask about summer in the same call, since eligibility is written around autumn and spring. If the answer is no, section 02 lists help open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone.

BASICS is the one thing here you can book and know the price of: two 50-minute sessions for $35, “a prevention program for college students who are at risk for alcohol-related problems”, built around reducing harm rather than telling you to stop. If you would rather start privately, there is an anonymous misuse screener, and a low-cost drug and alcohol telehealth clinic runs from the Psychology Building — ring and ask what a session costs there. A “Students for Recovery and Sobriety Coalition” exists, reachable through the student engagement platform; no day or room is published, so message them and ask. TN REDLINE: 800-889-9789.

Memphis has an amnesty policy, and it is worth asking for it in writing before you need it. The alcohol page says “The Student Handbook: Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities outline our campus amnesty policy on addressing emergency situations related to substance use”, and the Code lists “Amnesty for Good Samaritans and those seeking emergency aid” at page 34. The operative wording would not open, so ask the Dean of Students for it, and ask whether it covers the caller as well as the person helped. None of that changes tonight: Tennessee law protects the person who rings for help. Call.

Memphis is one of very few colleges in the state that actually stocks naloxone. “Naloxone emergency kits are available in designated areas of the Student Health Center and Counseling Center”, each holding intranasal naloxone, protective equipment and step-by-step instructions. Training runs as a standing service — “naloxone education and training opportunities throughout the academic year” — rather than a one-off event. What is not published is whether you can take a kit without speaking to anybody, so ring ahead and ask which counter to go to. For a kit of your own with no conversation at all, section 05 has the free state routes.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

ETSU does not publish what an ordinary counselling appointment costs, so ask when you ring. Neither the Counseling Center home page nor its FAQ says free, charged or covered by a fee, and the question is much easier answered before a first appointment than after one — ring 423-439-3333. What is published as free is the crisis line, BucsPress2, and two digital tools, Togetherall and Welltrack Boost, both of which you can use tonight for nothing. No missed-appointment charge and no minimum credit hours appear anywhere. The model is “brief, solution-focused therapy”, so ask what that means in sessions.

Save 423-439-4841 and press 2. That is BucsPress2, free, confidential and answered “24/7/365” by “well-being and clinical professionals contracted by the Counseling Center” — so a real clinician, even though ETSU does not name the company. The number is 423-439-4841, and there is a text line on 855-708-2490. This is not the office number: do not ring 423-439-3333 in a crisis, and ETSU says plainly not to email or leave a voicemail either. Three regional hospitals are named if you need somewhere to go, and 988 works from any phone.

Nothing is published about being seen from outside Tennessee, so ring and ask before you count on it. The home page, the FAQ, the emergencies page and the BucsPress2 page set no licensure rule, and no out-of-state teletherapy service is named. Put the question to 423-439-3333 before a semester away. Two things do travel with you whatever the answer: Togetherall and Welltrack Boost are online and free to ETSU students, and 988 is answered around the clock from any phone. Section 02 lists more help that is open to you wherever you are sitting.

ETSU says honestly that this is not what its counselling service does, which is worth knowing before you book rather than after. If substance use is “the primary focus of care” you will be referred elsewhere rather than seen in the brief model. So go straight to the route that helps: the TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789 is free, confidential and answered around the clock, and will find you a meeting, an assessment or a service in the Tri-Cities. Ask them about collegiate recovery near Johnson City if you want other students around you. Section 02 has more.

We could not find a medical amnesty or Good Samaritan provision on any ETSU page a student can read. The alcohol policy page would not show its text, and a site search for “amnesty” returned only Title IX material. ETSU may well have one, so ask the Dean of Students for it in writing, and ask whether it protects the caller as well as the person who needs help. Do not wait for that answer tonight, though. Tennessee law protects anyone who in good faith seeks medical help for an overdose from arrest, charge and prosecution. If someone is in trouble, ring.

There is no naloxone published anywhere on ETSU’s student pages, and the training that turns up in search results is from 2019 — so get your own kit. In Tennessee that is free. The Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist covering Washington County gives out naloxone and trains you to use it at no cost, and the state publishes their name and a direct number. Narcan is also on pharmacy shelves over the counter, with no prescription and no conversation required. Section 05 has both routes, and keeping a box where you live costs you nothing.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Free, and said without qualification: “Services offered by the Center for Counseling and Mental Health Wellness are free for enrolled students of TN Tech and are confidential.” No missed-appointment charge and no minimum credit hours. You also get a real number to plan around, which is rare: “Eligible students are allotted 12 sessions per academic year starting with the Fall Semester” — and emergencies, consultations, your intake appointment and group counselling are all excluded from that count, so they do not eat into it. If you think you will need more, ask at the first appointment what happens next.

Ring 855-206-8997 at any hour. That is the Eagle Eye Crisis Hotline, free and confidential, and it is the one to save: 855-206-8997. One Tennessee Tech page offers it “or” the office number, and at 2am the office is shut, so use the 855. Who answers is not published, so ask in the first minute whether you are speaking to a counsellor. In the daytime there is a walk-in centre at 1200 S. Willow Ave, and Cookeville Regional emergency room is named if you need somewhere to go. 988 is free and answered around the clock.

Nothing is published about being seen from outside Tennessee, so ring and ask before a semester away. No licensure rule appears on the index, about, contact or crisis pages, and no out-of-state service is named. An older page still advertises Zoom appointments; do not plan around it without checking with 931-372-3331 first. Two things work from anywhere whatever they say: the Eagle Eye hotline on 855-206-8997 and 988. Section 02 lists more help that is open to you wherever you are sitting.

There is more here than at most colleges, and the way in is an enquiry form rather than turning up. The Center for Addiction Prevention & Support has its own number, email and address, and works with students and 18–29-year-olds across Putnam County. It runs the Eagle Recovery Community, which “holds weekly peer support meetings”; the day and room are not printed, so send the form or ring and ask what is on this week. “Opioid Overdose Reversal Training” and “Recovery Ally Training” are offered the same way. For something answered tonight, the TN REDLINE is 800-889-9789.

Tennessee Tech’s handbook points at TTU Policy 172 on alcohol and drugs, and that policy would not open, so ask for it in writing. Put the request to the Dean of Students, and ask specifically whether calling for help protects both you and the person you called about. Meanwhile, what you do tonight does not depend on the answer. Tennessee law protects anyone who in good faith seeks medical help for an overdose from arrest, charge and prosecution, it covers the person overdosing as well as the caller, and since July 2025 it covers alcohol too. If someone is in trouble, ring 911 and stay with them.

Tennessee Tech teaches “Opioid Overdose Reversal Training” but does not publish anywhere to get naloxone — so do the training if you can, and get the kit elsewhere. Elsewhere is straightforward and free: the Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist for the Upper Cumberland hands out naloxone and training at no cost, with a name and direct number published by the state, and Narcan is sold over the counter in pharmacies with no prescription. Section 05 has both. Ask the Center for Addiction Prevention & Support whether they can put a kit in your hand when you enquire.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Austin Peay does not publish a price, a free statement or a fee mechanism for counselling anywhere, so ask when you ring. Nothing appears on the landing page, the services pages, the individual counselling page or the health index. That is not a reason to stay away; it is a reason to ask two things on 931-221-6162: what a session costs, and whether anything is billed to insurance. You need to be currently enrolled and nothing more — no minimum credit hours, and no missed-appointment charge is published. The offer is “short term confidential counseling” with no number, so ask that too.

Be ready for this one: out of hours, the number Austin Peay publishes reaches the police, not a counsellor. Its words are “After hours emergencies or holidays: Call APSU Police at 931-221-7786 or dial 911 for the Clarksville Police Department.” If an officer is what the situation needs, ring it. If you would rather talk to a counsellor without police involved, 988 is free, confidential and answered around the clock, and Austin Peay also publishes the Mobile Crisis Unit and Crisis Text Line. For drink or drugs, the TN REDLINE is 800-889-9789. Save at least one of those alongside the campus number.

Nothing is published about being seen from outside Tennessee, so ring and ask before you rely on an appointment. No Austin Peay page sets a location rule. TalkCampus is named as an online service with no state rule attached — and it is peer support rather than therapy, so do not treat it as a substitute for a clinician. Put the question to 931-221-6162 before a semester away. Section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone in the country.

Austin Peay publishes policies about drink and drugs rather than a service for them, so the useful route is off campus. One thing from its own pages is worth having: information from people who “voluntarily avail themselves of alcohol or other drug counseling… will be confidential. It will NOT be used against the individual seeking assistance.” Asking for help does not put you into the conduct process. For actual help, the TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789 is free, confidential and answered at any hour, and will find you a meeting or an assessment near Clarksville. Section 02 has more.

Austin Peay publishes no medical amnesty or Good Samaritan provision — so lean on the thing it cannot take away, which is the law. The Policy on Substance Abuse, the Code of Student Conduct, its offences section and the Alcohol & Other Drug Philosophy contain no such clause. But T.C.A. § 63-1-156 protects anyone who in good faith seeks medical help for an overdose from arrest, charge and prosecution, it protects the person overdosing too, and since July 2025 it covers alcohol. So if a friend is in trouble, ring 911 and stay with them. Ask the Dean of Students for the conduct position in writing afterwards.

Nothing about naloxone appears on any Austin Peay page — no supply, no cost, no training — so plan to get a kit yourself, which in Tennessee costs nothing. The Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist for Montgomery County gives out naloxone and free training, and the state publishes their name, direct number and email. Narcan is also sold over the counter in pharmacies with no prescription and no conversation, and on TennCare it is up to two products a month for a $5 copay at most. Section 05 sets all of that out. Keep one where you live.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Free: “There are no out-of-pocket fees to utilize UCC services”. TimelyCare, the round-the-clock service TSU buys in for you, is “free to all Tennessee State University students” as well. You get “up to 12 sessions of individual counseling per academic year”, usually every other week — that figure appears on one page only, so confirm it at your first appointment. The penalty for missing appointments is not money but your place: “if you no-show or cancel three or more appointments, you may be removed from your counselor’s caseload”. Ring 615-963-5611 and cancel early and you keep the slot.

There is no TSU clinician on call, so pick your route now rather than at 3am. TimelyCare is the one TSU pays for — “24/7, on-demand access to a mental health professional”, free to you, and you register with your student email, which is much easier done in daylight. If you would rather speak to someone local, Davidson County Mobile Crisis is 615-726-0125 and they will come out. 988 is free and answered around the clock. Campus police are published too, if somebody is in immediate danger. TSU pages differ on which to use, so save all three.

TSU is explicit about this, which helps you plan: “Telehealth services are available for actively enrolled TSU students residing in the state of Tennessee”. So if you are physically outside Tennessee, the university’s own telehealth is not open to you. TimelyCare is the obvious alternative and TSU does not say whether it works out of state, so ask that directly when you register, or ring 615-963-5611 and ask. Section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone in the country.

TSU publishes no substance-use service of its own, so use the state line — it is better than most campus offers anyway. The TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789 is free, confidential and answered at any hour, and it will find you a meeting, an assessment or a treatment place in Nashville, which has more of all three than anywhere else in Tennessee. If you would rather start by talking it over with a counsellor, TimelyCare is free to you and available the same night. Nobody there needs a diagnosis or a decision from you first. Section 02 has more.

The handbook at TSU’s live address contains no medical amnesty or Good Samaritan provision — it sets out escalating sanctions for drug misuse and stops there. Ask the Dean of Students for the current position in writing, and ask whether calling for help protects you as well as the person you called about. But do not let that silence change what you do tonight. Tennessee law protects anyone who in good faith seeks medical help for an overdose from arrest, charge and prosecution, it covers the person overdosing as well as the caller, and since July 2025 it covers alcohol too. If someone is in trouble, ring 911.

No TSU page publishes naloxone — no kit, no counter, no training — so get your own, which in Tennessee is free and quick. The Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist covering Davidson County gives out naloxone and training at no cost, and the state runs a county search tool with names and direct numbers. Nashville also has syringe services programmes that distribute it free, and Narcan is sold over the counter in any pharmacy without a prescription. Section 05 has all three routes. Keep a box where you live rather than in a bag you might not have with you.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Counselling costs nothing: “There is no cost to receiving counseling services.” Psychiatry is different — “There are fees associated with appointments for the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner”, and the amount is not published, so ask what it is before you book that one. No session cap is published at all; the model is “brief, solution-focused therapeutic interventions”, so ask at the first appointment what that means for you. The no-show rule bites harder than a fee: three no-shows in a semester and you are “ineligible to continue counseling for the current semester”. Ring 423-425-4438 to cancel, however late, and you keep your place.

One number, and UTC tells you who picks it up, which is rare. Ring 423-425-2273 — 423-425-CARE — and “you can reach the on-call counselor”. Not a switchboard, not an app. One UTC page calls it an evenings-and-weekends line and another calls it a 24/7 resource, so try it whenever you need it; if the office is open, 423-425-4438 reaches it directly. 988 is free and answered around the clock as a backup. UTC also names an on-campus clinical partner if you need longer-term care than the brief model gives.

UTC’s own pages do not agree, so ring and ask rather than guessing. The Counseling Center landing page offers in-person appointments and telehealth “for students located in Tennessee”; the services page offers counselling “in person or virtually” with no location rule at all. No out-of-state alternative is named. Put the question to 423-425-4438 before a semester away or before you count on an appointment from another state. Section 02 lists help open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone in the country.

This is the strongest substance-use offer of any college on this page, and there is a room you can sit in. Mocs Recovery is “an all-pathways community providing support to students in recovery from substance use, process addictions, and co-occurring behavioral health issues”, with an office, two phone numbers and a recovery lounge. Peer support meetings run “when classes are in session” and the weekly schedule goes to the programme’s Instagram rather than the website, so message them or walk in and ask what meets this week. Motivational Interviewing (BASICS) is available one to one if a group is too much to start with.

Call for help: UTC protects both of you, and it tells you the law does too. Section 17 of the Student Code of Conduct, “Amnesty for Good Samaritans and Impaired Students”, covers emergencies involving “alcohol or drugs” and protects the caller as well as the impaired student. It names T.C.A. § 63-1-156 for immunity from drug charges and T.C.A. § 63-6-218 for giving someone naloxone. The conditions are published honestly: stay with the person, give accurate information, and know that repeated or serious violations are not covered and that it does not apply once police have arrived on their own. So ring early. Section 03 has the law.

Naloxone is already on campus, and you have probably walked past it: “Where there is an AED, there is now a ONEbox” — in residence halls, the University Center, recreation facilities, the library and academic buildings, beside the defibrillators. The training is inside the box: “When they open that ONEbox, a video kicks off that walks people through the process of administering naloxone in real time”, so you do not need a course first. Work out where the nearest one to your room is tonight. If you would rather keep a kit of your own, section 05 has the free state routes.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Free, and simply put: “All clinical services are free of charge”, with walk-in urgent hours 9am to 3pm on weekdays if you do not want to wait for an appointment. No missed-appointment charge and no credit-hour test is published. On how much you get, Belmont says there is no explicit session limit but describes a “short-term and goal-oriented model”, and refers out anyone needing to be seen “more than once a week”, so ask at your first appointment what that means for you. TimelyCare, the round-the-clock service Belmont buys in, does have a hard limit: 12 visits. Section 06 covers care off campus.

There is no Belmont counsellor on call, so the clinical route at 2am is TimelyCare. It is “Free 24/7 Mental Health Care provided by licensed clinicians”, with on-demand support reached “within 3–7 minutes” — register now with your student email so you are not doing that at 3am. Belmont also says to “Call 988 or text 741741”, both free and answered around the clock. On campus, Campus Security on 615-460-6911 answers at any hour, and Belmont says its staff “receive mental health crisis response training”. Eight numbers are published in no order; those three are the ones to keep.

This is the clearest out-of-state answer here: TimelyCare “covers you in all 50 states”, free to Belmont students, so you can be seen wherever you are sitting. Two things to check. The vendor’s own detail page does not repeat that 50-state line, so confirm it when you register. And Belmont publishes no location rule for its own clinicians — services are “offered both virtually and in person” and nothing more — so if you want the campus service rather than the vendor, ring 615-460-6856 and ask. Section 02 has more that is open to you anywhere.

There is a group with a day and a time, which is more than most manage: Recovery Rising, Wednesdays 6–7pm, for students working to “maintain sobriety while navigating the challenges of college life”. The room is not published, so ring 615-460-6856 and ask where it meets — a first meeting is a hard enough door without hunting for the right one. For treatment itself, Belmont refers students with “significant drug and/or alcohol problems” to community providers, and Nashville has plenty. The TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789 is free, answered at any hour, and will find them for you.

We could not find a medical amnesty or Good Samaritan policy on any live Belmont page, so ask for it in writing. The Substance Free Policy page is a single sentence pointing at the Bruin Guide, and the accountability FAQ contains no such clause. Ask Student Accountability whether it protects the caller as well as the person who needs help. Do not wait for that answer if somebody is in trouble tonight. Tennessee law protects anyone who in good faith seeks medical help for an overdose from arrest, charge and prosecution, it covers both of you, and since July 2025 it covers alcohol as well. Ring 911.

Belmont publishes no naloxone for students — not on its health pages and, surprisingly, not through its College of Pharmacy or the campus pharmacy. That counter is still worth asking at, because Narcan is sold over the counter anywhere without a prescription. Free is easier: the Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist for Davidson County gives naloxone and training away at no cost, and Nashville’s syringe services programmes distribute it free too. Section 05 has the names and numbers. Whichever route you take, keep the box where you live rather than in a bag.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

Free during term: “There is no charge for counseling sessions during the fall and spring semesters.” Summer is different — sessions then carry “a fee per session” and the amount is not published, so ask before you book one. No missed-appointment charge. On campus you get “Short-term Individual Counseling (Approximately 3 to 6 sessions)”. The round-the-clock service has its own separate allowances, which do not come out of those: 12 virtual therapy sessions a year, 6 psychiatry sessions a year and an hour a month of peer support. Section 06 covers care off campus.

Ring 1-855-850-4301 at any hour — “Call for support 24/7/365” — and you will reach a master’s-level mental health professional. Rhodes names the company that answers, which most colleges do not, so you know in advance it is a clinician rather than a switchboard. The number is 1-855-850-4301, and it is the one for nights, weekends and holidays. If somebody is in immediate danger, Campus Safety, 911 and the nearest emergency room are published. Rhodes also prints the TN REDLINE on its counselling page, 800-889-9789, free and confidential for drink and drugs.

Two Rhodes pages say different things, so ring and ask which applies to you. The about page says teletherapy is for students who are “in-state”; the landing page advertises 12 virtual therapy sessions a year and the 24/7/365 line with no location caveat at all. Put it to 901-843-3128 before a semester away, and ask specifically whether the 855 line works from another state. Section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone in the country.

Rhodes refers treatment out, and it points you at something most colleges never mention. Detox and residential care are named as the referral triggers. What is unusual is that Rhodes names Tennessee’s statewide Collegiate Recovery Initiative on a student-facing page, along with recovery ally training and peer recovery specialist certification for 18–30-year-olds — worth asking about if you want people your own age around you. There is no meeting with a published day or room, and the office takes email rather than calls, so write and ask what is running. For tonight, the TN REDLINE is 800-889-9789.

Call for help — Rhodes protects you and the person you called about. “Amnesty under this policy, when granted, excuses a Student, RSO, or AG from College sanctions under the Standards of Conduct”, covering “alcohol, drug, physical, and emotional distress related emergencies”. Repeat use is limited. Rhodes is also honest that campus amnesty “has no bearing on actions taken by any law enforcement agency” — true, and exactly why section 03 matters: a separate Tennessee statute protects the person who rings from arrest, charge and prosecution. So you are covered twice, by the college for conduct and by the state for the law.

Rhodes offers recovery ally training through the state but publishes no naloxone to go with it, so get a kit yourself. Nothing appears on the drug policy page, and no counter or cost is given. In Shelby County the Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist supplies naloxone and training free, Memphis has syringe services programmes that distribute it at no cost, and Narcan is on pharmacy shelves over the counter with no prescription needed. Section 05 has the routes. If you do the ally training, ask the trainer on the day whether they can put a kit in your hand.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

CAPS services are free: “All CAPS services are free for actively enrolled Sewanee students.” The one charge is for not turning up — the FAQ publishes “$25.00 for a missed CAPS appointment”, the only cash no-show fee on this page. So ring 931-598-1325 and cancel the moment you know, even at short notice; the charge is about the empty hour, not about you. There is no session limit: “Although we don’t impose a session limit, students are often able to meet their counseling goals within 4 or 5 sessions”, every other week, 45–50 minutes.

Ring 931-598-1700 and you reach “an emergency crisis counselor” — but check the clock first, because Sewanee describes that line two ways. CAPS calls it “the CAPS 24-Hour Crisis Line”; Risk Management gives it as 5pm–8am on weekdays, weekends and holidays. The number is 931-598-1700. Try it whenever you need it, and if it is a weekday afternoon and nobody answers, ring CAPS on 931-598-1325 instead. 988 is free and answered around the clock either way. In office hours the published route is to come to the Wellness Center and fill in an assessment form.

Nothing is published about being seen from outside Tennessee, and CAPS does not say whether it offers teletherapy at all. Most students here live on campus, so it may never come up — but if you are on a leave of absence, away for a term or studying abroad, ring 931-598-1325 and ask what you can use from where you will be, before you need it. Section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone in the country.

What Sewanee publishes is a way to check where you stand, rather than a service. ScreenU is “a free and anonymous screening tool to assess substance use” for alcohol, cannabis and prescription drugs, alongside AlcoholEdu. Anonymous is the point — nobody has to know you looked. Beyond that, no clinician, group or phone number for drink and drugs is published on campus, so for real help use the TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789: free, confidential, answered at any hour, and it will find you a meeting or an assessment within reach of Franklin County. Section 02 has more.

Sewanee has a proper Good Samaritan Policy, so calling for help is the right move. “Amnesty will be granted to students and recognized student organizations or groups who proactively seek assistance”. It names the two halves separately — Individual Amnesty for the person who needs help and Reporter Amnesty for the person who calls — and covers “alcohol and/or other drugs”, though not distribution. The conditions: report it, stay with them, cooperate, follow up afterwards. Repeat reporters may lose eligibility. And whatever the college decides, Tennessee law protects the caller from arrest and charge separately. Make the call.

Nothing about naloxone is published on any Sewanee page, which is a gap worth closing yourself. It costs nothing: the Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist covering Franklin County supplies naloxone and training free, with a name and a direct number published by the state, and Narcan is sold over the counter in pharmacies without a prescription. Section 05 has both. On a campus this remote, having a box in your room is the difference between waiting for an ambulance and being able to do something while it comes — and the Good Samaritan policy plainly expects drug emergencies to happen.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

UT Martin does not publish what counselling costs, so ask in your first call. Neither the landing page nor the Policies page says free, charged, or covered by a student health fee. No missed-appointment charge appears, and no minimum credit hours. There is no session limit published either — not a number, not even a “short-term” description. None of that is a reason to hold back; it is a list of three questions to put to 731-881-7750 before your first appointment: what it costs, how many sessions you get, and how often you will be seen. Section 06 covers care off campus.

The published route is “For after-hours emergencies: Call the SHCS Mental Health Crisis Help Line” on 731-881-7743. UT Martin does not say who picks that up — a counsellor on call, an answering service or a message — so ask in the first minute whether you are speaking to a counsellor, and do not rely on it alone. Save 988 beside it: free, confidential, answered around the clock by a trained person, from any phone in the country. For drink or drugs, the TN REDLINE is 800-889-9789. Note the crisis number is not the booking number.

Nothing is published about being seen from outside Tennessee, and nothing says whether teletherapy is offered at all. That matters here, because UT Martin runs substantial online programmes. So if you study remotely, ring 731-881-7750 and ask directly what you can use from where you live, before you count on anything. If the answer is nothing, section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting, 988 works from any phone, and the TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789 covers drink and drugs statewide.

UT Martin publishes no substance-use service, so use the state line — it is a better route than most campus offers anyway. Substance use is not among the counselling services listed, and the health and policies pages do not mention alcohol or drug support, assessment or recovery. The TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789 is free, confidential and answered at any hour, and will find you a meeting, an assessment or a treatment place near Martin and Weakley County. Ask them about Tennessee’s collegiate recovery network too, if you would rather be among other students. Section 02 has more.

We could not verify whether UT Martin has a medical amnesty policy, so ask the Dean of Students for it in writing. The conduct, disciplinary and handbook pages would not open to checking, and the one that did load, on sanctions, contains no amnesty provision. Ask whether it protects the caller as well as the person who needs help. What is certain is the part that matters at 3am: Tennessee law protects anyone who in good faith seeks medical help for an overdose from arrest, charge and prosecution, and since July 2025 that includes alcohol. If somebody is in trouble, ring 911 and stay with them.

No UT Martin page we could read publishes naloxone — no supply, no cost, no training — so get a kit yourself; in Tennessee it is free. The Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist covering Weakley County gives out naloxone and training at no cost, and the state publishes a county search tool with names and direct numbers. Narcan is also sold over the counter in pharmacies without a prescription, and on TennCare it is up to two products a month for a $5 copay at most. Section 05 sets the routes out. Keep it where you sleep.

Wherever you are: 988 then press 0 for a crisis, 800-889-9789 for drink, drugs or gambling — both free, both 24 hours.

On campus it is free: “There is no cost for these services”, and spiritual direction is free too. Appointments run “typically… once every other week” with no numeric limit published. The catch is the online option, so read this bit twice. BetterHelp is free “for one month”, “up to 4 sessions in that month” — and you have to enter payment details upfront. After that month it becomes an ordinary paid subscription unless you cancel, and Union does not publish what it then costs. Put a reminder in your phone for the day before the month ends. Section 06 covers paying for care.

There is no Union clinician on call, so know which number does what before you need it. For a clinical conversation at any hour, ring the Pathways 24-Hour Crisis Line on 800-372-0693, or 988; both are free. On campus a 24-hour residence director answers 731-298-7768 and 24-hour security is available — they can reach you quickly, which matters, but they are residential and safety staff rather than counsellors. 911 and the local emergency room are published for anything immediate. BetterHelp is scheduled therapy, not crisis cover, so do not wait on it tonight.

Union’s counselling is for “students who are in the state of Tennessee”, in person, by phone and by video. For students away from the main campus the named alternative is BetterHelp, offered “across all campuses” and to online-only students — but the other campuses named are also in Tennessee, and whether either route reaches you physically outside the state is not published. So ring the counselling office and ask directly before you rely on it. Section 02 lists help that is open to you wherever you are sitting, and 988 works from any phone in the country.

Union publishes no substance-use service, so the route that will help you is off campus. Substance use appears as something counselling may see, and the formal document is a Student Alcohol and Drug Testing Policy rather than a description of care. Counselling here is explicitly faith-based — “counseling from a Christian perspective” — which some students want and some do not. Either way, the TN REDLINE on 800-889-9789 is free, confidential and answered at any hour, and will find you a meeting, an assessment or a treatment place near Jackson. Section 02 has more.

Union publishes no individual amnesty, so the thing that protects you here is the law — and it does. The handbook prohibits alcohol “on or off campus” with no age exemption, and what stands in for amnesty protects the organisation rather than you: calling for help “will mitigate the judicial consequences against the organization” at an event it hosts. Set that aside. Tennessee law protects the person who calls for help from arrest, charge and prosecution whatever your handbook says, and it protects the person overdosing too. If somebody is in trouble, ring 911 and stay with them.

Naloxone is not mentioned in Union’s Campus Life Handbook or anywhere else on its site, so this one is on you — and it is easy. The Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist covering Madison County gives out naloxone and training free, and the state publishes their name and a direct number. Narcan is also sold over the counter in pharmacies with no prescription and no conversation. Section 05 has both routes. Keep a box where you sleep. Given how nervous Union’s own rules can make students about asking for help, having the antidote to hand matters more here, not less.

One number worth not mixing up

800-560-5767 is the state department helpline, and it runs weekdays 8am to 4:30pm Central. It is for advocacy and for help getting into a service — the department describes it as being for people who need assistance “outside emergency situations”. It gets reprinted as a 24-hour crisis line, so if you find it on a poster tonight, ring 988 and press 0 instead.

Getting the address is one phone call

The state publishes which counties have a centre but not the street addresses. So ring 988 and press 0, say which county you are in, and ask where the walk-in centre is. They will tell you, and that is exactly what the line is there for.

What it does not stretch to, and the one thing to expect at the scene

It covers those thirteen offences and no more. Simple possession, paraphernalia, and the underage, public-intoxication and alcoholic-beverage offences are in. Manufacture, delivery, sale and possession with intent are not, and the statute leaves any other offence, and any lawful seizure of evidence, where it was.

If you work in a bar, the alcohol part does not cover you on shift. Since 2025, Title 57 licensees and their employees cannot claim it for the alcohol offences. It makes no difference to a student who is not working.

An officer can still detain you while they work out what happened. The immunity is applied at the scene by the officer rather than later by a judge, and the law keeps their power to detain somebody during an investigation. Being detained is not being charged. Ring anyway — that is the whole point of this section.

And if it turns out you are not covered, helping still counts for something. Giving first aid “may be used as a mitigating factor in a criminal prosecution for which immunity… is not provided”.

Reading your handbook without being frightened by it

If it says the college “does not grant amnesty for criminal, civil, or legal consequences”, read that narrowly. A university is telling you what it can and cannot do for you. It is not telling you the law does nothing. One handbook on this page puts the same point the right way round: campus amnesty “has no bearing on actions taken by any law enforcement agency”. Both sentences describe the same split. Your college handles your discipline; § 63-1-156 handles the police.

Some policies ask you to stay, to cooperate, or to have a conversation with a counsellor afterwards. That is your college asking, not the law — and a follow-up session is usually the whole of it.

If you are weighing it up with the phone in your hand, ring. A conduct process is something you come back from. And if you would rather your college was not involved at all, 911 and the numbers in Section 02 do not report to your dean.

Three more things worth knowing

This is not a route for drink or drugs on their own. It runs on mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Tennessee handles substance use elsewhere, and this page does not cover that part of the law.

Being held is not being arrested, and a jail cell is not a lawful place to keep you. The law says so in terms: detention is “not to be at jail or other criminal custodial facility unless defendant under arrest for crime”. If you are held under this part and you are not under arrest, say so.

Four kinds of people can start it without a warrant — any officer authorised to make arrests in Tennessee, a licensed physician, an authorised psychologist, or a professional designated by the Commissioner. The officer’s threshold is only that they “has reason to believe”. The certificate of need that follows has to be written by a physician, psychologist or designated professional and must set out the facts it relies on — which is a fair thing to ask to see.

UT Chattanooga — in the same cabinets as the defibrillators

ONEbox units sit with the defibrillators in residence halls, the University Center, recreation facilities, the library and academic buildings.

The training is inside the box. Opening it starts a video that walks you through administering the naloxone, so there is nothing to learn in advance and nobody to ask first.

The University of Memphis — ask at the counter

Kits are kept “in designated areas of the Student Health Center and Counseling Center”, each with intranasal naloxone, protective equipment and instructions.

MTSU — send an email first

Free overdose response kits are published as an email address for one named member of staff, with no location and no hours. So send the email in the next quiet week, not on the night you need it.

If nobody answers, ring these instead

Neither line is a 24-hour line and neither is a crisis line. Out of hours, ring 988 and press 0 for a crisis counsellor in Tennessee, or text HOME to 741741. Both are free and both are staffed at any hour.

If you have an old NEDA helpline number written down, or you find one on a poster, use one of the two numbers above instead. The National Eating Disorders Association no longer runs a phone helpline — its Get Help page offers a screening tool, a treatment search, low-cost support options and guidance on raising concerns, and no phone number, text line or chatbot.

On campus, this is a referral question. Ask your counselling centre who they refer eating disorders to, and ask before you are in crisis rather than during one. It is a two-minute question in an ordinary appointment.

If you are deciding who on campus to tell

A Title IX office starts a process. That can be exactly what you want — it is the route to accommodations, no-contact orders and an investigation — but it is a reporting office, not a confidential ear, and telling it is a step with its own momentum.

The hotlines above are confidential, and you can use one first. Talk it through, take your time, and go to Title IX afterwards if you decide to. You can do both. Some campuses publish their own service too — Austin Peay a sexual assault centre hotline, Memphis a rape crisis centre, Vanderbilt its Project Safe — so check your row as well.

Whoever you speak to on campus, ask in the first minute: are you a confidential resource or a reporting one? Section 08 covers who can be told what.