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 josh. seriously. believe it. just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him if he can sort of sound like. a friend. like one or two people like. the student got to prescription from a fairly unobservant doctor. many millionaires using. it. so josh deals a 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 can hear you are. going to get. ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. lunch fats 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 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 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 office full stop. drugs. 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. i mean it's all. good the police have been looking at these new internet dealers fook quite some time. oktober two thousand and twelve operation docs called to the rest 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 in the what is it that 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 would say.

exactly. no 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 you know that this questionnaire put together by the world health organization helps diagnose attention deficit disorders among adults. it to also works as a medical guarantee for this doctor is that he will be able to text will read your report but is there so that we will take a break and return to a large intestine yeah exactly this with goals. to protect him. from any possible prosecution the psychiatry's made to sign

a disclaimer as she would settle 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 the 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 victorian like buildings are home to the famous fraternity house 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 the owners can see. the aim to find future flatmates for this brand new house located in the heart of campus inside there's a fireplace a club armchair paintings of the former alumni you could almost forget their students live here is really a time so these are of any real chance of that. 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. what else you've been to their roles and events. we store in

a certain street. there you go. the atmosphere is rather relaxed everybody is trying to make a good impression you want to take a look at the house your company goes together 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 turn a tease for house right down the street they're building 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 dollar west budgets are struggling here to for eternity 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 kind of like a swede almost for two people but. benefactors who will become sponsors of the students once graduated sal this is a fraternity's main strength building a professional network to get radio in jordan there. is a presence for him and 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 but they are a very bad place to hang out if. 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 fire i mean this idea of a big head. you know. you know it's. right there at the s.a.e. have. now spencer is already

a little at home. his place in the house is reserved it's a family heirloom. but there are no serious serious. serious particularly as. you prefer. their preferences. or its characteristics. 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 pot and alcohol. what's up. for in that this is what gives a fraternity its reputation these nights of heavy drinking at the end of the afternoon and on a campus delta sigma fi house has already started to copy thirteen more pitchers.

delta is 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. a series of great joys. was a game best goodnight is best says i i knew that it was yes there are loads of books for turning he gets around and we chant this song and yeah oh yeah all rushing forward hello. yeah but it's welcome like really well you know how it's good. for these much obituaries have only one objective tonight the brothers for life who i would close tonight if he wasn't up by a good live guy's life. even though one out. garofalo there were just.

aside from the camaraderie the fraternities also have another purpose too and i will die members to me go. this is mary gearin she's about to murder with two balls . their favorite targets aren't waitresses but sorority students the female equivalent of fraternities on campus. of the new nine pm in the delta is at a house the party is in full swing. it was among the thirty or so excited goes we see luciano delta six party guy. he's come on a scouting mission. was our doing. thank you i was. with them on campus we turn to cheese and sororities form a single community one big dating club the students from good families where anything

goes was with that what happens here stays here was i think i was i 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 i'd told her it was like the only guys who really associates are here in a sorority you pretty much only talk to her right really boys yeah yeah i'm. sure he'll give this year a new email events with them and your friends are dating guys who answer paternity you say like that's just actually do but then we'll make fun of can we can make fun of like. yeah you know you are an idiot or it may have been emoji i which is means

i mean depending. on american campuses academic success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students want to add to even the most barbaric afresh the initiation. hey everybody i'm stephen ball. test hollywood guy you'll suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v.'s to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru well it's a little bit different i'm out of the room one can find no no windows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have some fun meet everyday americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people. on the.

ice is was it to by the americans by the israelis i'm fortunate to be by financial support of some. sort of countries in the. for making them unsafe you don't need it. yes. i. still would have been miles from. that day to.

day. i. was to set my limit was for him to make or the jamie has a hunk. now at the height of the. hill i don't known him for that matter i see let him make the one you have me or the. clothes i gave up to grab me as you said when i looked at. least. we had to hand over on the east coast of the united states. where we have to one of the oldest american universities. upon leaving its graduates are 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. one of them just like his grandfather brother before him. let's start. over here so actually every time every time i want to go to sleep it's like underneath. the former student isn't bitter however his initiation nearly killed him for to you. they spared him nothing this was actually the night the night of rush everyone gets kidnapped and taken to this other spot where they don't know where they are. going to charge 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 hazing or fresh the initiation is

a time of and this humiliation about the vomit couple pledges vomit into a pan and one of the touch chairs cracked you know eggs and cheese and big in the oven and on the plate just out that you know. 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 kiddie pool it was like a shock people vomited in and people. people are jocular. the year before someone defra kid the pleasures 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 you know it is the money it's you know there were the alumni who 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 parte meehan have chosen to break the law of silence by pressing charges against their son's fraternity came to court to indicate my son's that 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 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 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. 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 that kept. pouring but about a stroke that's one. part of the span that they took my simple already had passed and they took him up to the house and. put him to bed isn't just the growth of the left in there. just that i. thought. the next morning the police discovered our months 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 but. it was. just full of stuff in here right now so i just can't bring myself to take it out them. very poorly of. the first char saw the

three students sentenced to a weekend in prison an injustice for nicole arman sister and a sign of impunity of these fraternities weekends in jail going on very becoming and certainly didn't even make any sense you know but now they can organize and get married and have kids and already run and have kids downstairs have an uncle 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 that student discovers the joys of spring break for the first time we've learned during the weirdest your little way that. the girls are going to show you. what's in store for them dance competitions and drinking again. american students forget the pressure of the upcoming exams in the meantime anything goes further 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 limits 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 departure ie the state of texas is not to mean with its

resources that 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 but in the girls' room some haven't stomach the alcohol so well they go through drunk at the beach for their share 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 were to can't drink 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 girls get to secondly. emily and sherry are two students from dallas with a clear objective means we are here five days a week. and 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 just want to make 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 things 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 that co-created on top. of the tower and what it does in all frame around three hundred sixty degrees like you have here play station actually we can move that camera all the way around we can actually if you can film a pretty close. mike has just received a call from the tower an individual has been spotted dealing cannabis by these are the brother for the president and the tower allows mike to rest you don't see when fringe that will. take you in two thousand and thirteen the south padre island police make 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 eighteen what he was ordered.

for this student has a fake id he's pretending to be the legal age for drinking alcohol. free entry. rowdiest managed to get past the barrier and like these under-age girls. it turns out that he an alj and have been planning this for a long time like this it. 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. twenty six years to. a. lot of. basically. every year spring break brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. after several hours

of patching roundy and allergen our 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. looking to take their pains to strain every really here. every evening these volunteers prepare more than six thousand pancakes to help the party goes absorb some of the alcohol that binge drinking. in ten years spring break has become a non miscible event 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. seen

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 a lot better and i think it's fair and hurting whenever my my baby's says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoff a million americans have been killed by firearms of the us way how to thought to me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in 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. welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin my body gets and some bodies that i cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity no one does this because it helps people it's just that one of the side effects is that i did this before i was more burned for it put the money on your car radio we don't have all plasma based drugs today come from private companies and are produced from paid plasma as well as. your own motor car and. one of the g.'s is much higher in paid donations.

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