“I’ve always felt that I stumbled into this passion that I didn’t know existed,” says Allison Smith, Ph.D., Senior Program Administrator for the Louisiana Center Addressing Substance Use in Collegiate Communities (LaCASU) at the Louisiana Board of Regents (BOR) in Baton Rouge, LA and facilitator of the Louisiana Higher Education Coalition (LaHEC).  Early on, Dr. Smith knew two important things about her future career: she liked helping people and she was good with paperwork. In 2010, she found her way into the work of addressing substance use and overdose prevention through an internship at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in Washington D.C.