Junior Justin Guiffre, The Hatchet’s opinions editor, compares other universities’ medical amnesty policies to those of GW and calls for the inclusion of drugs into the policy.

E-MeR-G-ed [i-mur-juh-id] – verb, the process of being assessed and automatically transported to GW Hospital by the Emergency Medical Response Group after consuming alcohol. Used in a sentence: “Last night I was EMeRGed. FML.”

The way students think of the EMeRG process is demonstrative of how poorly the alcohol policies at GW are written and administered. GW’s medical amnesty policy causes an inefficient distribution of medical resources, suspiciously makes money for the University and scares students into not calling for help when potentially necessary.

Guiffre has clarified and expanded on his column in a comment below.