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. 

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