Its estimated in 2011 one in three high school students will try drugs in their high school career. Teens are routinely seeing drugs, used, sold, or bought in school whether it is a stranger or a friend. Our nation’s youth has become a place where drugs and alcohol has become a common item in a student’s life.

Drug use is not only becoming popular in high schools but also universities and the young adult life. College used to be academically the highest point someone could go in ones career. Going to college once represented the most ambitious, lively, and energetic traits in a person and also shows the perseverance of who want to move forward with their lives. But since drug abuse has occurred college has changed and has now been a hot spot for teen parties, drinking, and drugs. Now the requirements to go to college have gone down and the acceptance rate has gone up for students who are only able to go to college for the sports they’re in.  Attitudes to go to college have changed significantly and beyond recognition. Students now blow off steam by going to bars or drinking with friends.

Many students have been suspended or expelled this year dude to serious drug offences. They’re either caught with possession or the use of the product. Not only are depressants and stimulants a problem in schools but also prescription drugs have taken a toll. Kids may not know it but handing out prescription drugs or anti-inflammatory drugs is illegal to hand out even to friends. Even if they say they have a headache or pain. Even though these drugs aren’t illegal they aren’t legal to be passed out during the school day. If a student needs any of these they can go to the main office or nurse and get some with parent consent. They can even have parents call the school and consent for them to have these anti-inflammatory.

Not only high school and colleges but even in middle schools drug use has increased a thirty nine percent increase from 2009 to 2010. Some students even as young as eight years old have tried illegal substances. All this started when the older students started to do drugs.  People mirror others because they think it is cool to be like someone older then them. High school students and college students need to set an example to correct this bad habit our world has adapted to.