Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 14:52     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Had your child reported exposure to cocaine use in college? My ivy kid has encountered kids doing it at a few parties and reports that high school classmates were doing it in the bathroom at a large gathering of kids when home this week. We've also heard of other high school classmates doing it at their colleges. All top 20 schools.

I knew it was out there but this is a little close to home. Have you heard the same? My kid is never quite in the cool crowd but is liked by everyone and gets invited to some things. If they are seeing this then there must be a lot more drug use going on.


Your kid at Penn?

Penn has always had a ton of cocaine

It’s part of Penn culture


NP and naive penn parent here. I hear a lot about drinking pre and at frat parties. Is there a particular social group where cocaine/drug use is prevalent? Is drug use big within certain sororities? TIA for info that I can use to guide conversations with my kid about my concerns.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 12:49     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else noticing cigarettes are making a comeback? I’m astonished DD reported good kids from high school coming home from freshman year and having cigarettes at Thanksgiving eve parties.


Did some of you people grow up in barns out in the Midwest? Cigarettes are not associated with “bad” kids. It’s not the 1950s. It’s more females than males who smoke. Some do it instead of eating, some do it because it helps during a really stressful incident, some are social smokers who only smoke at parties with alcohol. It’s not like the old days but some kids still smoke. They tend to quit after college when they go into the adult world.

I hope fentanyl isn’t at colleges, that’s sad. Cocaine has been on campuses for decades, so has Molly and for the studious kids methamphetamines. [/quote

Lol. I grew up outside of NYC. I also smoked in college. I view people who smoke now as total trash. It is such a lower class habit now.


Lol. My kid hangs out on the fringe of the super $$$$, boarding school crowd at an Ivy and those kids all smoke cigarettes. And these are US kids, not internationals. Whatever is not cool to their parents "Smokers are total trash and low class!" is cool to teenagers.


When I was in public middle school there was always a "smoking shed" outdoors where either the cool kids or the dirtbags smoked. Idk. I was in 7th and 8th grade but the top age was 9th grade for that.

In boarding school from grades 9-12 there were both indoor and outdoor smoking areas, all for the "cool kids" ... there were no dirtbags anymore. You were supposed to have "smoking permission" from your family but no one ever really checked. I went into the indoor smoking lounge once and someone offered me a butt and I said "that's OK" and they just sort of rolled their eyes and I knew it wasn't my place to be.

I have one adult kid who smokes but he lives in a country where drugs will put you in prison for decades but everyone pretty much smokes cigarettes. Not happy about it but what are you going to do.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 12:45     Subject: Re:Cocaine in college
Very common especially at frats.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 12:42     Subject: Cocaine in college
There was apparently a lot of cocaine around when I was in college in the 80s. I didn't do it.

I was too busy getting white girl wasted on the weekends to bother.

I have a son who lives overseas in a country where you don't want to go to prison for drugs but when he comes home he sees his HS friends in the hometown and they all are working long hours at manual labor jobs. They buy coke because it's very cheap now, supposedly.

One time they got a batch contaminated by Fentanyl and they were all passing out at work while working heavy machinery and hanging off tall ladders and things. Now they call carry narcan. 2025
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 12:27     Subject: Cocaine in college
I am sure cocaine is everywhere but I’ve never seen it in person. Kid’s college counselor suggested Tulane and kid dismissed rec bc of party culture, fwiw.

I think colleges where kids live on campus for longer may have less hard drug use? Bc penalties of getting caught in school building are higher (no pun intended).

Interestingly, my sister moved to Michigan and she says her friends back home are all interested in legal weed when they visit her. It made me wonder what legalization does for marijuana use (and really all substance use) on campuses. Guessing it increases.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 11:32     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else noticing cigarettes are making a comeback? I’m astonished DD reported good kids from high school coming home from freshman year and having cigarettes at Thanksgiving eve parties.


Did some of you people grow up in barns out in the Midwest? Cigarettes are not associated with “bad” kids. It’s not the 1950s. It’s more females than males who smoke. Some do it instead of eating, some do it because it helps during a really stressful incident, some are social smokers who only smoke at parties with alcohol. It’s not like the old days but some kids still smoke. They tend to quit after college when they go into the adult world.

I hope fentanyl isn’t at colleges, that’s sad. Cocaine has been on campuses for decades, so has Molly and for the studious kids methamphetamines. [/quote

Lol. I grew up outside of NYC. I also smoked in college. I view people who smoke now as total trash. It is such a lower class habit now.


Lol. My kid hangs out on the fringe of the super $$$$, boarding school crowd at an Ivy and those kids all smoke cigarettes. And these are US kids, not internationals. Whatever is not cool to their parents "Smokers are total trash and low class!" is cool to teenagers.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 11:22     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else noticing cigarettes are making a comeback? I’m astonished DD reported good kids from high school coming home from freshman year and having cigarettes at Thanksgiving eve parties.


Yes. Lots of smoking going on at the Ivy my kid attends. Vaping is really out but cigarettes are very in.


Cigarettes are awesome when you're a student.

-- Ivy grad who hasn't smoked in years but remembers them fondly.


My kid (at an Ivy) texted me during orientation to say "who knew cigarettes were still a thing" She was surprised because kids in HS vaped (a lot) but no one her age really using cigarettes back home. She hasn't mentioned cocaine at all, but I remember it being a rich kid thing when I was in college so I'm sure its still a thing in certain social circles.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 11:10     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else noticing cigarettes are making a comeback? I’m astonished DD reported good kids from high school coming home from freshman year and having cigarettes at Thanksgiving eve parties.


Did some of you people grow up in barns out in the Midwest? Cigarettes are not associated with “bad” kids. It’s not the 1950s. It’s more females than males who smoke. Some do it instead of eating, some do it because it helps during a really stressful incident, some are social smokers who only smoke at parties with alcohol. It’s not like the old days but some kids still smoke. They tend to quit after college when they go into the adult world.

I hope fentanyl isn’t at colleges, that’s sad. Cocaine has been on campuses for decades, so has Molly and for the studious kids methamphetamines. [/quote

Lol. I grew up outside of NYC. I also smoked in college. I view people who smoke now as total trash. It is such a lower class habit now.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 10:35     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:Penn is Coke central


+1000000
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 10:31     Subject: Cocaine in college
Got blow?
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 10:28     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:I just asked my son, and he was surprised when I told him about this thread. He says he hasn't seen any of that at W&M. Not that there isn't any, but not with the people he's around. He's been offered weed, but nothing more than that.


Tell him to stay away from ATO
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2025 10:25     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:Cocaine is for kids without health insurance.


Hunter Biden doesn't have health insurance? Yes he is not a kid. but what does health insurance have to do with this...?
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2025 18:45     Subject: Cocaine in college
Penn is Coke central
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2025 18:41     Subject: Cocaine in college
Anonymous wrote:Had your child reported exposure to cocaine use in college? My ivy kid has encountered kids doing it at a few parties and reports that high school classmates were doing it in the bathroom at a large gathering of kids when home this week. We've also heard of other high school classmates doing it at their colleges. All top 20 schools.

I knew it was out there but this is a little close to home. Have you heard the same? My kid is never quite in the cool crowd but is liked by everyone and gets invited to some things. If they are seeing this then there must be a lot more drug use going on.


Your kid at Penn?

Penn has always had a ton of cocaine

It’s part of Penn culture
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2025 18:33     Subject: Cocaine in college
I just asked my EMT kid at an Ivy, he’s had one cocaine call and knew of one other last year. He doesn’t drink or party so wouldn’t see it in other scenarios. Most emergency calls are alcohol and weed mixing related, lots of freshman fall semester learning limits.