Alcohol/Drug Counseling Program Expands
Posted by Kevin W Frye at 4/23/2008 7:20 AM and is filed under MS DUI Law,Ole Miss,MS Criminal Law News 
Sue Lynn Mills of the Oxford Eagle filed this report yesterday detailing the outgrowth of the University of Mississippi's BASICS alcohol and drug intervention program in the form of Brief Intervention and Screening for the Community (BISC) and Substance Abuse Services. The currently existing BASICS intervention program is mandated by the Court in DUI and other alcohol related cases involving students. The BISC program is intended to serve the wider community - specifically those offenders not enrolled at Ole Miss.
My understanding of the BASICS program is that counselors work with students to learn how to be responsible when they consume alcohol, and for the few students with a clear drinking problem, to discontinue the consumption of alcohol altogether. I have had a number of conversations recently centering on the responsibility of alcohol consumption, with clients, students and local residents alike. I am certainly in favor of a program that is intentional in teaching responsibility rather than over-reacting and/or advocating zero tolerance. My clients suggest that the BASICS intervention program can be helpful, and I look forward to the added opportunity that BISC may provide to my non-student clients.
My understanding of the BASICS program is that counselors work with students to learn how to be responsible when they consume alcohol, and for the few students with a clear drinking problem, to discontinue the consumption of alcohol altogether. I have had a number of conversations recently centering on the responsibility of alcohol consumption, with clients, students and local residents alike. I am certainly in favor of a program that is intentional in teaching responsibility rather than over-reacting and/or advocating zero tolerance. My clients suggest that the BASICS intervention program can be helpful, and I look forward to the added opportunity that BISC may provide to my non-student clients.
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