MARYVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Maryville College’s “Bridges to Wellbeing” project is the latest to be funded through Tennessee’s Opioid Abatement Grant program. The $500,000 project aims to curb drug dependency by offering students a different kind of counseling to cope with college stressors, according to a Thursday announcement.

“The Counseling Center and our internal/external partners will provide a menu of choices to help each student find their own path to manage the stress of college (and in life) and the challenges that come with it while decreasing the reliance on unhealthy choices to ‘survive’ through college,” Claudia Werner, the Maryville College Counseling Center’s director. “We want all our students to have the ability to focus on their best life while they are here and use this k

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