Article: Drug-taking is less prevalent on campus than students think
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/12/students-drug-taking-less-prevalent-on-campus?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9384
Summary:
The survey shows that students are not experimenting with drugs.
45% of students have never tried any form of illegal drugs. Of students who have used drugs, 77% say they've used cannabis, 39% ecstasy and 24% cocaine.
One in six of the students who took part in the survey has been tried Ketamine, but 63% of students never try the animal tranquiliser.
61% of students won't try LSD, 57% won't try mephedrone, 52% won't try cocaine and amphetamines (both). Cannabis is the most consumed, only 3% of students surveyed said they wouldn't want to try.
Internet is the most used way for getting information, the doctor our parents are not a way to get information and help abut the illegal drugs, 67% used Internet.
A five of students consumed legal drug like cigarettes and a quarter of students tried the most popular of illegal drugs, that is currently nitrous oxide, or laughing gas.
I chose this article because I think that is a very important topic because the addiction of the drugs is like a taboo in some places.
that's a good topic, I think it's really a taboo here, and probably at our university there are less drugs than we think, ahahahaha
ReplyDeleteMaybe, it's because the mass media's influence, which have been giving wrong information about it, and the name "drugs" here (in this country) just involve cannabis or cocaine... but they don't care about cigarettes or alcohol, which are drugs too ! (actually, all the things can be drugs... it depends on de dose)
yeah, I think that there is a serious problem with the definition of "drug" and I think that the most of the time the mass media and the governments contribute to this...
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