Drug Essay

So when it comes to drugs in college, many doors begin to open. As most people know, a lot of people in college (even more out of college) have tried or experimented with some form of illegal drug. Whether its drinking alcohol before the age of 21, smoking weed, or even taking prescription drugs to feel “good” most students in colleges have tried almost all of these things or at least one or the other. Its becoming hard to find drugs in today’s society that are considered taboo to the younger generation of people. Drugs for many people are becoming increasingly common sights, especially in college.

While alcohol is not necessarily a drug, it is still an illegal substance that almost everyone has experimented with in college. How common is it to hear about college parties at fraternities and sororities that have had alcohol, and all the funny, crazy, even horrific stories that go with them. A freshman just coming into college is expected to get drunk in college, or at least that’s what television puts into the minds of everyone in our society. Its almost considered wrong not to try and drink in college. However there are people that are out there that still hold to what they believe and sometimes that means that they won’t allow themselves to try alcohol in college.

When people think about drug use in college, one drug seems to come up the most, Marijuana. Most freshmen in college are usually expected or at least thought to have smoked once in their life, finding people that have never tried is becoming more and more rare in colleges today. And people who haven’t tried it are constantly bombarded with drug references and are asked to smoke all the time. It takes a strong willpower to stand up to drugs in today’s society, since everyone tries this kind of stuff nowadays.

Prescription drugs are becoming a new way to try and get that high that everybody craves. People are taking Vicodin, and Asprin for the feeling, instead of for their intended purposes. Now this kind of thing is still new to people and not so many people are doing it, however this is also changing. People are becoming accustomed to the idea of drug use, almost any form of it.