to americans by the israelis i'm fortunate to be by financial support of some. sort of countries in the. for making unsafe. to get their degree which will get them their dream job young americans no longer hesitate to put their health at stake is the first day of term on the columbia campus one of the most prestigious universities in the world more than eighty nobel prize winners have by the study. just as in many other ivy league american schools some students take drugs to boost their academic results thanks to amphetamine deliberative so they can study through the night without showing any signs of tiredness you do my friend say do what's right for you to come here 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 them regularly. go 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 taking a v.h.d. medicine it just sort of 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 a competitive advantage. helping hand that she got hold of very easily. a friend of mine prescription for concern and he gave it to us for free and 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 we come across this student we'll call him joe. seriously hurt. you know it. just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him he consulted sounds like. a friend. like one or two people like. you the student got to three scription from a fairly unobservant doctor. many millions using. an elite league. group 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 can't do it so they do hear you lose your little release. ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. lunch fats is very familiar with this phenomenon a journalist 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 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 pollution 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. in order to get hold of them a simple phone call will do. what. but the police have been looking at these new internet dealers for quite some time . october 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 the specialists are being exchanged illicitly we went to interview one of them. and it was not the psychiatrist you know what is it 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 you're in other words. no no health scan no verification of my student status instead of any medical examination he just hands me a sheet. of red. orange. distance do you have problems organizing yourself or concentrating do you have memory problems that you know that this questionnaire put together by the world health organization helps diagnose attention deficit disorders among adults. a two also works as a medical guarantee for this doctor is that he will be able to text will read your report both of you to the so that we would take a break and return to a large intestine yeah exactly this is what goals will go. to protect himself from any possible prosecution the psychiatry is made to sign

a disclaimer this should reduce the floor for ok doctors there to hold 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 the to success. 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 victorian like buildings are home to the famous fraternity house on the front of each building week letters identify them. 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 then. 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 their students live here and we retire so these are of any real chance of that. tonight the fraternity will only be create the universities best pedigrees. graham has been an essay member since two thousand and ten and he knows the selection ritual well. for those of us are there also events. we store in

a short history. the atmosphere is rather relaxed everybody's trying to make a good impression you want to take away the house to a couple guys together although they are. good for their candidates the first visit is only the beginning of a lie. on 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 a farmhouse right down the street they're building this new house it's going to feel like one hundred square feet here in ars just to be bigger than ours but they're doing it like a two million dollar west budgets are struggling here for the fraternity is operate 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 the students once graduated found this is a fraternity's main strength building a professional network to get re going jordan. so i think there's a presence around it'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 the town where a very bad place but hey yeah yeah. this student in the red shirt gets a slightly warmer welcome spencer is a different kind of candidate to the others. though i mean you know that i feel as i do my big head. you know. 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. i don't know if you're serious. here take your pick you prefer. their preferences. or its target. at the university of kentucky twenty five fraternities shared 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 up. for and this is what gives a fraternity its reputation these nights of heavy drinking at the end of the afternoon and the campus delta sigma fi house has already started to party and we need more pitchers. delta saying this is your 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. a very great joy. was there getting better at the met is best is. very aware it was there was a little booklet for turning it gets a rally and we chant this song and yeah we all rushed in for an l o. yeah but it's welcome like well you know how it's done. for these much obituaries have only one objective tonight the brothers for life who i would push the money to if there was enough by a good five guys. even though of course they would do was.

aside from the camaraderie the fraternities also have another purpose to enable their members to meet girls this is mary gearin she's about to make out with t. ball of. their favorite targets aren't waitresses that sorority students the female equivalent of fraternities on campus. both of nine pm in the deltas at a house the party is in full swing. and it was a monk the thirty two so excited goes we see luciano delta six party guy. he's come on a scouting mission thanks so. much are doing. thank you thank you i was of the on campus fraternities and sororities form a single community one big dating club to students from good families where

anything goes be was thank you what happens here stays here was 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 how i how you i'd told her it was like the only guys who really associates are hearing this are pretty much only talk to her right only boys yeah yeah i'm. sure you give this year a new email evidence with them and your friends are dating guys who answered paternity you say like that's just actually do but then we'll make fun of can we can make fun of like yeah people who are interested they have a name oh g.-d.

i will just means an independent thank you on american campuses academic success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students will do anything even the most barbaric afresh the initiation. the i. was.

here's what people have been saying about redacted in the sixty's full on ourselves the only show i go out of my way to watch a lot of the really packs a punch to sleep yap is the john oliver of archie america's going to say we are apparently better than that to see people you never heard of love back to the night president of the world bank though very. seriously sent us an email. we had to have no phone the east coast of the united states. here we have talked must one of the oldest american universities here. upon leaving its graduates all among the country's top six highest salaries. and promotional images of an elite campus without history where one out of every two students is a member of a fraternity. and juno's was one of them just like his grandfather and brother

before him. let's start with her there and then over here too so actually like every time every time i want to go to sleep it's like underneath it says. the student isn't bitter however his initiation is he killed him. they spared him nothing this was actually the. 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 who gets into the russian loses and then the winner bomber on the losers head in contrast to the principle of support among fraternities hey single fresh initiation is a time of and this humiliation about the vomit a couple pledges vomit into a pan and one of the touch chairs cracked you know eggs and cheese and baked in the oven and the pledge. and you're a snow angel he has inflicted upon others the very same tortures he did out says

before 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 vomited in and people. people are jocular. the year before someone defra kid the cultures were swimming around in that 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 yeah it is it's money it's you know there were the alumni who give the most you know a lot of them were in for tourney's and a lot of them were 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 parte meehan have chosen to break the law of silence by pressing charges against their son's fraternity came to court to get my songs that will save. them and 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 get. that they're going to be. live on a chance for whatever damage that we can. get the cure is to work.

for the loss of their son the parte millions are claiming damages against the paternity as president as well as two other 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 jacka merriam's remarriage. 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 history mz 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 they struck that's one. party discipline that they took my simple already had passed and they took him up to

a house and. put him to bed good behavior i'm just going to let them they're. just i. but i almost thought. 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 meehan's house but. this was. just full of stuff in here right now so i just can't bring myself to take it out the most. important of. the first char saw the 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

a comma and suddenly didn't even make any sense you know but now they can organize and get married and have kids and do whatever they want. and have kids downstairs hernando that 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 cute little.

girls are going to read. what's in store for them dance competitions and drinking. american students forget the pressure of the upcoming exams in the meantime anything goes for good or for showing for a show their speed 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 metres from the beach there or be hydrated there drop in this body later. accustomed to such depaul cheree the state of texas is not to mean with its resources there are two hundred first aid workers are hired so that the party does not turn into a tragedy in charge of the 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 go through drunk at the beach for their care and here in the old way of life you have to keep going routing out and have that technique from abuse they came in here in stop drinking if they want to can't drink then they would have been and they were going to party and just like us. for these students spring break records the effort they've made throughout the year. so they party day and night. a few hours later the girls get to second with. emily and cherie are two students from dallas with a clear objective means we are here for the baby.

and again tonight the team gets going. had it was one of the biggest nightclubs on the island there'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 just want to make sure that we're in the park in march we're going to try to make sure that. never was your car or trying to break into the steel plant. since last year mike has been able to rely on a very special form of support to help them control the situation feels. his ability from up there to watch things that people don't think about. the control tower several meters from the ground and downed with night vision cameras we have one camera which located on top. of the tower what does it all the way around three hundred sixty degrees like you have here play station actually we can

move the camera all the way around we can actually if you can show me pretty close . mike has just received a call from the tower an individual has been spotted dealing canopies five things are doing better for you right. the tower allows mike to rest you can sue infringe that will. take 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 night. tonight he's planning to dance and drink all night he's out for a night. the problem is he's only eighteen when he was sort of the catalyst 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 past the barry unlike

these underage girls. it turns out that he an out and have been planning this for a long time. and at least. thirty. sixty dollars 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. pleasing to. god. they certainly. every year spring break brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. after several hours of partying rowdy 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 at

the stove going to share in the little juice they're paying to train every really care. 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 another miscible events on the schedules of american students tomorrow we get up early with good food and we continue to just party unity. like cool spring break is rowdy and alden will be going back to campus to take their exams. but there have to knuckle down in the united states one out of every two students leaves university without a degree. leak .

they call me a useful idiot i'm useful idiot you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on t.v. there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about what's next why stop will feel badly from getting this close to the white house and with a group code pink why not ban the color pink why not scratch me all the right i should be sent to the town because i'm going to try to break me although we'll put up with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice

my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you're going to me you want to do this because we all freethinkers. years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with that i don't i think they are and hurting whenever my my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by phone to the us how to thought to me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not.

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