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she will hide her identity i didn't have any expectations of getting and the essay i wrote was a hot a biography five pages i ended up taking a ph d. medicine 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 that you have a helping hand 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. believe it.
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just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him if he can soldiers out. right. like on earth evil like. the student got to three scription from a fairly unobservant doctor. thirty minutes using. food so josh deals the twenty five milligrams that he doesn't use and sell the use after a few minutes of negotiation he lets us buy one of his pills ten dollars for thirty milligrams of five for to me you're welcome and so they are using. the average. ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. island is very familiar with this phenomenon. a journalist at the new york times he
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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 in the cream of the problem if average is no longer acceptable we're all in very big trouble among the most fragile students these pills can cause violence police in nations 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 office full study trucks. to attract students these miracle pills have even been renamed study aid. in order to get hold of them a simple phone call will to. zero zero one. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. but the police have been looking at
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these new internet dealers for quite some time oktober two thousand and twelve operation dot com led to the arrest of twenty one new yorkers who were 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 these specialists are being exchanged illicitly we went to interview one of them. and it was like this because this is what is going you know before i take a test or something and i pretend to be a student who is having difficulties. so here's a loop through that said. exactly. no no health scan no verification of my student status instead of any medical examination he just hands me a sheet. well rather. this is do you have problems
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organizing yourself or concentrating do you have memory problems. this questionnaire put together by the world health organization helps diagnose attention deficit disorders among adults. age also works as a medical guarantee for this doctor is that you will be able to. read your route through the soul of the brute and return of the large person to yeah exactly this with what goals or. to protect himself from any possible prosecution the psychiatry is made to sign a disclaimer. that would support for it ok obviously to all those 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 the to succeed other students hedge their bets on another system of co-working which has
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stood the test of time. back at the university of kentucky. these great victorian like buildings are home to the famous fraternities on the front of each building week letters identified. ronald reagan george w. bush steven spielberg mark zuckerberg 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 there. and i can see you in the
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aim to find flesh. or house events or their roles and even if we started a short history. there you go. the atmosphere a swath of relaxed everybody's trying to make a good impression you want to take a look at the house in a couple of guys together and go oh yeah. good food they count it it's a family and. my dad know you're serious.

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