Study Pinpoints Exactly Which Months New College Students Try Certain Drugs For First Time And December Sounds Like A Blast!

With kids going away to college for their first semester, plenty of parents are lying awake at night worried about what junior is smoking, snorting or God forbid shooting into his system. While the cat is away, the mice will get funked up!

It turns out mom and dad really need not worry because junior started experimenting WAY before the new semester, according to a new report. The drugs they’ll start experimenting with on campus are actually to get a competitive edge and not really to get high.

Students are most likely to try marijuana, inhalants and alcohol for the first time during the summer, not the school year, according to the report released Thursday by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which examined data from the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

First use of cigarettes peaks in June, September and October. Underage college students who have never tried alcohol before are most likely to have it for the first time in June. First-time use of cigars, marijuana and inhalants is highest in June and July, and the first nonmedical use of prescription painkillers happens most often in December.

College students tend to try stimulants such as Adderall and Ritalin for the first time in November, December or April, according to the examination of 12 years of government survey data. They may believe the attention deficit disorder medications will help them ace their exams, even though there is no medical evidence that such drugs enhance performance and such drugs can be addictive.

Man, so by December it’s week, booze, other inhalants, Adderall or Ritalin or both, plus painkillers? Tis the season to get INSANE!

The overall finding of the studies show that kids do the most drugs in the summer months where there’s less supervision and plenty of time on their hands and “YUP!” said everyone who’s currently banged up right now.

[via AP]

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