The 80's are back at Penn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Opioid use is epidemic. Pop your bubble, people.

+1

I'm a old mid-30s fart, but I knew of plenty of drug use among my peer group (students of Ivies, Little Ivies, small party schools, art schools...). Cocaine wasn't the most popular drug because people found it easier to get their hands on Adderall and its counterparts. One of the biggest cokeheads I ever knew went on from being his Dartmouth frat's dealer to a product engineer for the iPhone circa 2007.

[Anonymous]

Look at the Drug Culture survey responses on the UNIGO site. All schools are not the same. They don't attract the same type of kids or create the same social context.

Penn has 11% of responding agreeing to "There is a huge drug scene."

Harvard has "1%"

Hobart & William Smith "25%"

Bowdoin 0%

Ignore these stats at your own risk people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://34stfeatures.github.io/the-dividing-line/

Cocaine use rampant at penn in the article above to the stress penn kids have that's causing mental health issues and suicides - what's up with Penn these days?

Rampant? This article doesn't suggest that. I was at UMPC when Len Bias died. There was a small group of kids and certain circles doing coke. I never saw it. Seems like this is still the case, and I am willing to bet at many other campuses, not just Penn

UMPC - LOL ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the Drug Culture survey responses on the UNIGO site. All schools are not the same. They don't attract the same type of kids or create the same social context.

Penn has 11% of responding agreeing to "There is a huge drug scene."

Harvard has "1%"

Hobart & William Smith "25%"

Bowdoin 0%

Ignore these stats at your own risk people.

"Huge drug scene" is rather subjective, no? At BYU someone smuggling in a case of Diet Coke might be considered a huge drug scene. For kids who've been popping addies since middle school, pot is nothing and occasional use of cocaine isn't going to be seen as a huge drug scene.

[Anonymous]

It is a subjective question, but it is being asked with the same wording across all schools...so the different proportions (for that most extreme
response option) likely reflects real variations in use.

I am a social scientist.