Drug and alcohol violations on college campuses

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Greek members and Athlete students are involved with drugs and alcohol more than college students that are not part of Greek life or athletes. As of the peer pressure and the exposure exhibited in their surroundings does have an impact on their use of drugs and alcohol.

For most students, they like to go to college to gain new opportunities to experience college life and to experiment with different things. The United States has over 7,000 higher education institutions and over 15 million students (Brain Track, 2013). Drug and alcohol use is not new to the college life. Experimenting with drugs and alcohol comes with consequences. Alcohol and drug violations simply mean that the students do not abide by the policies implemented by the colleges. Approximately 110,000 college students were arrested for alcohol-related violations such as public drunkenness or driving under the influence (College Drinking, 2013). Gallaudet University has 276 drug violations and 5 arrests while the alcohol violations were 213 with 0 arrests. Greek organizations and athletes are more likely to drink and do drugs more often.

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There are various factors that have an effect on drug use: parenting styles, availability of drugs, emotional reasons, athletic involvement, and the Greek system (Brousseau & Baron, 2008). College students use drugs (including alcohol) for different reasons. A study was done on students at Seattle University to determine drug exposures. There were a total of 218 students that participated in the study with a survey of 21 questions. In the survey, it asked if the students has ever drink or do drugs at Seattle University at different time points and one of the final question was if the students knew and other stud...

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