This is significant. The RA needs to know what to do in an emergency and be comfortable dealing with it. Even if not drugs or drinking you can have all sorts of emergencies. When I was in college my roommate was a type 1 diabetic and had a low blood sugar episode where she couldn’t fully wake up in the morning. I knocked on the RA’s door and she called 911 while I plied my roommate with sugary stuff. She had come around by the time that the EMTs got there, but that’s the kind of thing RA’s need to be able to deal with.
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