to mean defectives they can study through the night without showing any signs of tides you to my friend so you. break we're going to colombia and there are. two. in the united states these study drugs have become a public health issue more than a third of american students take their regularly. to columbia thanks to an exam she took under the influence of infection. to avoid a disciplinary action she will hide her identity i didn't have any expectations of getting in the essay i wrote was it hot a biography five pages i ended up speaking a.d.h. madison it just it puts you. in a mental space where you can focus entirely why not take a pill if everyone else is doing it to give you that competitive advantage. helping had that she got hold of very easily. a friend of mine prescription for

a concert and he gave it to us for free i'm probably down like a dozen times or so. and you will see how these pills are almost sold us over the counter drugs on campus. we walk through the streets around new york university with a hidden camera. after twenty minutes of searching become across this student we'll call him joe. seriously. you know it. just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him if he can soldiers out. friends. like. people like. the student got to prescription from a thirty unobservant doctor. sunni militants using.

so josh deals the twenty five milligrams that he doesn't use and sell. after a few minutes of negotiation he lets us buy one of his pills ten dollars for thirty milligrams of amphetamines. you go in so they give you. ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. is very familiar with this phenomenon of journalists at the new york times he was one of the first people to raise the alarm. but i have to succeed i have to get an a i have to get into the best law school i have to be in the cream of the problem if average is no longer acceptable we're all in very big trouble among the most fragile of students these pills can cause violence elucidations and suicidal thoughts. despite the risks

a real traffic of these drugs has developed over the internet. this classified ad site well known by americans has dozens of. drugs. to attract students these miracle pills have even been renamed. in order to get hold of a simple phone call to. the police have been looking at these new internet quite some time. oktober two thousand and twelve operation dot com to the rest of twenty one new york who are operating on this site. among them a student at n.y.u. . the aim of the authorities is to break up any traffic where doctors may be involved. on campus the addresses of the specialists being exchanged illicitly. we

went to interview one of them. and it was like the psychiatrist in the wizard you know before i take a test or something and i pretend to be a student who is having difficulties over. the years would trigger. exactly. no health scan no verification of my student status instead of any medical examination he just hands me a sheet. with a. distance do you have problems organizing yourself or concentrating do you have memory problems that this questionnaire put together by the world health organization helps diagnose attention deficit disorders among adults. it was so works as a medical guarantee for this doctor. who will be able to. read. through to the so that the birds are returning to

a large intestine yeah exactly this with goals or. to protect himself from any possible prosecution the psychiatry is made to sign a disclaimer because it would support for ok. as it was. in two thousand and nine almost six million prescriptions like this were issued to young americans every month in four years this figure has more than double good to succeed other students hedge their bets on another system of co-working which has stood the test of time. back at the university of kentucky. these great big tuireann like buildings are home to the famous fraternities on the front of each building week letters identified. ronald reagan george w. bush steven spielberg mogs. all of them have been through these exclusively male

secret brotherhoods. although they encourage support loyalty and integration as a code of conduct many americans consider them as violent and sectarian. after a few weeks of negotiations some of them allowed us to film them. it's rush week the week for selecting new members and tonight it's operation charm at the sigma alpha epsilon house. so the owners can see you the aim to find future flatmates for this brand new house located in the heart of campus inside there's a fireplace a club arm chair paintings of the former alumni you could almost forget the students live here and we are tired so these are all before any real championship that's there tonight the fraternity will only be create the university's best pedigrees. graham has been an essay

member since two thousand and ten he knows the selection ritual well. for the house of answer there are rules and events. we store in a short history. so you know. the atmosphere is rather relaxed everybody's trying to make a good impression you're going to take away the house in a couple of years ago they will go for you. good for their candidates the first visit is only the beginning of a long process selection hazing initiations to get a place here they will have to get through what are sometimes violent challenges but not tonight discouraging the contenders is out of the question their attack is still focused on the competing for eternity but for how far down the street their goal in this new house it's going to feel like one hundred square feet here on ars just to be bigger than ours but they're doing it like a two million dollars budget restricted here to for eternity. he's operates with

huge budgets entry for the sposi students cost between one thousand to three thousand euros a year. the wealth of these fraternities is mainly gifted to them by former members it's you know kind of like a a suite almost for two people but. benefactors who will become sponsors of these students once graduated this is a fraternities main strength building a professional network radio in jordan. so there's a presence around that's kind of his role model. these fraternities are mainly hope to young white anglo-saxon americans. it's a great way of continuing a system of the elite and privileges spencer that are a very bad place to hang out. this student in the red shirt gets a slightly warmer welcome spencer is a different kind of candidate to the athletes. though i mean you know that i do as

i do know being. there. you know it's. right there at the s.a.e. house spencer is already a little at home. his place in the house is reserved it's a family heirloom. here serious very serious it's yours if you prefer. their preferences. or its perch. at the university of kentucky twenty five fraternities share the campus and the pick of the students quite apart from their parent teaches him they also indulge in fierce competition in terms of parties and alcohol. what's. more in that this is what gives a fraternity its reputation these nights of heavy drinker. at the end of the

afternoon and about an accomplice delta sigma fi house has already started to party and we need more pitchers. delta saying this is a new channel twenty two he's organizing the feeling he's in charge of the fraternity social life his mission for the days to motivate those who are choosing the new members and they begin by going over the classics. are a very very great joy. as they're getting better at the met is best is. very wary of thought there was a robot a booklet for turning he gets a rally and we chant this song and yet they all rushed in for diallo. yeah but it's welcome like well well you know there was. five of all these much obituaries have only one objective tonight the brothers for

life who i would close in my jail if there was enough by against five guys my even though i thought i would go forward this is. aside from the camaraderie the fraternities also have another purpose to enable them members to meet girls this is mary gearin she's about to make out with t. ball. their favorite targets aren't waitresses but sorority students the female equivalent of fraternities on campus. nine pm in the delta is at a house the party is in full swing. thanks among the thirty two so excited goes we see luciano down to six party guy. he's come on a scouting mission. oh yeah that's how i do it. thank you you thank. on campus few turned

a tease of sororities form a single community one big dating took the students from good families where anything goes. with. what happens here stays here. thank you. thank you thank you very. much thank you normally it's the fraternity is that host the sorority so that these young ladies don't have to pay each fraternity member contributes two hundred dollars perturb it is all done to encourage making connections times with frat parties it's all free however hell yeah i'd told her it was like the only guys who really associates are hearing this or pretty much only talk to her right only voice yeah yeah i'll. even give this your new email events with them and your friends are dating guys who answer

paternity you say like that's just what you do but then we'll make fun of can we can make fun of like yeah people who are here and they have a name oh g.-d. i which is means i mean depending. on american campuses academic success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students will do everything even the most barbaric afresh the initiation. is taken these children's home. now threatens to take the future. of ok and could erupt again at any time. most people have a strong. choice. live in poverty. what's going to. put

some a following a different. living food and soon we. point out that hope for a better life. this keep being way it was only about maintaining peace between states i didn't essentially symbolic value when you have militias when you have criminal groups. the symbol is not enough you need robust force.

what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some want to be preached . to going to be prosperous like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about our. first of all. we had to have no phone the east coast of the united states. here we have to document one of the oldest american universities. upon leaving its graduates all among the country's top six highest salaries. promotional

images of an elite campus without history where one out of every two students is a member of a fraternity. was one of them just like his grandfather and brother before him let's start. over here too so actually every time every time i want to go to sleep it's like underneath. the student isn't bitter however his initiation nearly killed him. they spared him nothing this was actually the night of rush everyone gets kidnapped and taken to this other spot where they don't know where they are. going to chug a lot of six cups of beer you know as fast as you can the first person here and they're dressed in blue suits and in the winter. in contrast to the principle of support among fraternities hazing the initiation is a time of and this humiliation about the vomit couple pledges vomit into

a pan and one of the pleasures cracked you know eggs and cheese and baked in the oven in the pledge. and you're a snow angel he has inflicted upon others the very same tortures he denounced his for daring to testify about them in one of america's biggest magazines rolling stone confessions of an ivy frat boy among these confessions there is something that nobody has forgotten when i first saw the people it was like a shock people vomiting people. people are jocular. the year before someone defra kid the pleasures were swim around you're like baptized. at dartmouth his confession exploded like a bomb but once the scandal was over the university tried to bury the matter i tried to get them to investigate and they never did you know in a real way if you really want to know what i think you know. it is it's the money

it's you know they're what they. give the most you know a lot of them are in for tourney's and a lot of them are on well some of them are on the board of trustees or were on the board of trustees and. you know millions of dollars changes hands. and you left out months before graduating. even though he survived the fraternity violence others weren't so lucky. you're ten am at the long island courthouse. jack omarion pâté meehan have chosen to break the law of silence by pressing charges against their son's fraternity. to court to negate my son's stays. there until he died from alcohol poisoning. this civil trial marks the end of four years of relentless legal battle according to their lawyer this tragedy should serve as an example for going to gates. that

they're going to be. liable down the plants for whatever damage that we can. get the jurors to work. for the loss of their son the parte millions are claiming damages against the paternity as president as well as two of the frat boys who were present on the evening of the hazing. the university itself is not involved the tragedy took place off campus. a man was nineteen years old he was the only child from jack a merriam's remarriage. and this is just before he went to college and the long hair was an a student. he was very smart very capable. among wanted to be a doctor but on the twenty eighth of february two thousand and nine his dreams were crushed his hazing turned into a tragedy after he was very very drunk. and that he was trying to stop drinking

they kept. pouring but about his stroke that's one. part of the spend that they took my simple already had passed out and they took him up to the house and. put him to. good behavior just the growth of lifting there. just by. the next morning the police discovered our mum's lifeless body the alcohol content in his body was seven times the legal limit. since the tragedy time has stood still at the parte means house that. was. just putting stuff in here right now so i just can't bring myself to take it out than. the poor of. the first char sold us

three students sentenced to a weekend in prison an injustice for nicole and sister and a sign of impunity of these fraternities weekends in jail going on very becoming and certainly didn't even make it he said you know but now they can organize and get married and have kids and already run and have kids downstairs that have not got there they don't know this is so the parte me and spiled a civil lawsuit to get compensation. the culprits were finally sentenced to pay a fine of millions of dollars in damages. on american campuses alcohol has become a real problem. once a year students from across the whole country gather for a heavy drinking session. we are in south padre island texas the spring break template. sixty thousand students meet here every year it's three pm on the largest

beach of the island rowdy has been drinking heavily ovett student discovers the joys of spring break for the first time we. were really chilly where it really. goes into. here's. what's in store for them dance competitions and drinking again. american students forget the pressure of the upcoming exams in the mean time anything goes in for good or for showing for a show there are agreed to give them a shot. from their families and what they used to these youngsters no longer know their lives due to drugs and alcohol many of them finished their afternoon in a medical tent set up a few meters from the beach there or be hydrated their drug in this body later. accustomed to such depaul cheree the state of texas is not to mean with its resources two hundred first aid workers are high so that the party does not turn

into a tragedy in charge of fire chief bernie the sad sad sad bring regular course like we have a disaster is controlled chaos. every day one hundred spring breakers are admitted to this field hospital. today about he has managed to get back to his hotel without any problems you. know all but in the girls' room some haven't stomach the alcohol so well they get too drunk at the beach for their care in the year in the past when . you have to keep going rowdy and out and have their own technique from abuse they came in here in stop drinking if they really can't drinking then they would have been and they were going to party and just like us. for these students spring break rewards the effort they've made throughout the year. so they party day and night. a few hours later the go is going to

secondly. emily and sherry are two students from dallas with a clear objective means we are here for a maybe. again tonight the team gets going. headed to was one of the biggest nightclubs on the island that's loose in the city spring breakers are the cause of many out to the sheriff mike is the tense this period of the year right now we're just sure that we're in the park and watch we're going to try to make sure that. the wires you cars are trying to break into the steal cars. since last year mike has been able to rely on a very special form of support to help them control the situation feels by his ability from up there to watch thing that people don't think about. a control tower

several meters from the ground i don't with night vision cameras we have one camera co-created on top. of the tower and what does it all straight about three hundred sixty degrees which i think you have here play station actually we can move a camera all the way around we can actually as you can tell me pretty close. mike has just received a call from the tower an individual has been spotted dealing cannabis. use id rather for the president and the tower allows mike to arrest you don't sue infringe that will. take you in two thousand and thirteen the south padre island police makes three hundred and forty five arrests over eight days. we find rowdy in the queue for the nightclub. tonight he's planning to dance and drink all night he's out for a night. the problem is he's only eighty one he was sworn in.

for this student has a fake id he's pretending to be the legal age for drinking alcohol. free entry. rowdy has managed to get power. barry unlike these under-age girls. it turns out that he an out and have been planning this for a long time like this. seems to. have a great night out these two boys have saved up almost five hundred dollars the equivalent of two months of student job salary. by twenty six still. a. lot of. basically. every year spring break brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. after several hours

of partying roundy and elgin are a little hungry and just as well because outside a pancake stand awaits that and there are catholics from all over texas cooking up the stove but i'm sure you believe they're paying to train every really here. every evening these volunteers prepare more than six thousand pancakes to help the party goes absorb some of the alcohol they've been drinking. in ten years spring break has become a nun miscible event on the schedules of american students tomorrow we get up early we go to the big news and we continue to just party unity. like cool spring break is rowdy and alden will be going back to campus to take their weeks out. but there have to knuckle down in the united states one out of every two students leaves university without a degree. there

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