According to Athena Kjell, a Madison area substance abuse counselor, many individuals start using drugs to suppress emotional disorders like depression or anxiety, but some do so simply for experimentation.
“We went to bars a lot, I’ll admit,” Jackie Zondag a 1983 graduate, said . “I believe as a freshman we could have beer in our dorm rooms, there wasn't any restrictions. I was just in Madison and talking to one of my old roommates and she thought you could even have kegs, believe it or not.”
However, students who have participated in Choices have claimed it has no effect on their drinking habits. UW-Madison junior Jake Prine participated in the program his freshman year after he got caught drinking in his residence hall. He said Choices is not educational, but simply a way to scare students from drinking.
There’s no shortage of alcohol-soaked traditions at college campuses across the country, even within the UW System—whether that’s Oktoberfest at UW-La Crosse, UW-Whitewater’s Spring Splash or the biannual pub crawl in Oshkosh.
Late last month, a child was found unconscious in his Milwaukee-area home. The boy had accidentally swallowed an oxycodone pill from his mother’s purse while she slept.
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