Young Adults

Being a college student presents its own set of challenges, including peer pressure to drink and do drugs, all-night study sessions fueled by energy drinks and uppers to stay awake, and endless parties that bleed into the following day. You’re never prepared for college in many ways, especially if you go from living at home to living in a dorm room.

You’re meeting students going through the same things you are, coping with classes, extracurriculars, social lives, and more. Everybody copes differently. Some turn to drugs and alcohol to get by and deal with the stress of school and everything that comes with going to college.

Eventually, you become dependent on substances and develop an ongoing problem without even realizing it. This could jeopardize your education and future – you often don’t even see what it’s doing. Everybody else around you does.

According to a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA):

• “The combined 2011 to 2014 NSDUH data indicate there was an annual average of about 9.0 million full-time college students aged 18 to 22 in the United States. According to NSDUH data, 9.9 percent of full-time college students aged 18 to 22 drank alcohol for the first time in the past year. Of the 9.0 million full-time college students in the United States, 6.0 percent used illicit drugs for the first time in the past year.”
• “Full-time college students who used alcohol in the past month drank an average of 4.1 drinks per day on the days on which they drank. Full-time college students who used alcohol in the past month drank on an average of 6.4 days per month.”