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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
Heroin?? Weed is rampant in college age kids and many might argue harmless, but my understanding is that molly and cocaine are the big potentially dangerous drugs in today's college chapters. Heroin is not a social drug and not the type of drug one just "tries" because their friends are experimenting, unlike coke/MDMA. It still has an extreme stigma attached to it (and for good reason!). If somebody in my chapter had even tried heroin once it would be huge news and reason for expulsion, and there were plenty of guys who would dabble in the other drugs extensively.
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Not to totally thread-jack, but heroin is a national crisis right now, and college kids are not immune to it. There was just a fraternity brother at Texas A&M who OD'd on heroin, and A&M is not a hard drug campus at all. I don't know if he was smoking, snorting, shooting up or taking it in pill form, but it was heroin.
A lot of kids are first introduced to drugs at "pill parties" in high school where kids raid their parents cabinets for whatever they can find- opiates like OxyContin and Hydrocodone are pretty easy to find. Some of these kids will graduate to heroin products once they run out - it's cheaper and more accessible. Some are prescribed opiates after athletic injuries/surgeries and become hooked. This heroin epidimic is hitting the middle and upper classes hard. It's not the "stereotypical" junkies shooting up in dirty drug dens anymore; it's a lot closer to Prince accidentally ODing on pain pills cut with fentanyl.
I hope our chapters are doing a good job of educating the women about the dangers of heroin.
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