Let’s say you are on shlichut in a university campus and you notice that one student’s behavior has changed drastically and that he has also not been eating recently. After a serious conversation with him, you both arrive at the conclusion that he is addicted to drugs and that his state is worsening… what do you do?

This week, students training for educational and rabbinical shlichut through the Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Institutes visited the Retourno Rehabilitation Center, where they learned about addictions, how to identify them, and what tools they can use to begin to address the phenomenon.