Substance free- an important clarification

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Good evening everyone,

Our ELC came in town last night and we had a great dinner discussing the chapter's terrific success this past year.

We also talked about a lot of high level issues- and it was a good conversation which I appreciated and set my mind at ease on many things.

I won't repeat it here obviously, but I did want to post something important I learned because I have been passing out bad information in several threads on this forum and I am sorry for that.

Simply put- substance free housing pertains to alcohol and illegal drugs ONLY. It does not apply to tobacco. Some of our chapters have added that for their own chapter housing, but it is not required.

In my defense I would say that I was misinformed by someone from one of those chapters- but it was not necessarily intentional. Might just be a case of someone reporting what they know which of course starts with how things work at your chapter.

Overall this is a good reason why some more general clarification from Oxford would be of benefit to all us advisors who are not involved in the day to day, but it also pays to do your homework- and I should have done more research before commenting on so momentous an issue.