California college students have two choices when they are experiencing an overdose: Ask for help and risk punishment from their university, or stay quiet and leave it up to fate.
Two years ago, TJ McGee, a second-year student at UC Berkeley, faced this very question. On the night that he overdosed, he lay on the floor of his dorm, pale and seizing.
His roommates—hovering above his body—were scared and frantic. They hesitated to call for help.
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