ABSTRACT
The use of drugs, primarily marijuana and LSD, has become an increasingly important and time-consuming problem on college campuses. Much of the thinking and writing (that done by adults, anyway) focuses on the drug use itself, asking why so many students take drugs and what can be done to prevent them, or lessen the impact of their use of drugs. But instead of asking why students use drugs, the author decides to ask how a campus comes to have a drug incident—thus suggesting that administrators ought to be concerned with a problem somewhat different from the one that conventionally are. This chapter seeks to distinguish campus drug incidents from campus drug use. Students may use drugs without incidents occurring. An incident occurs when students use drugs, the college administration is confronted with the fact publicly, and it takes some punitive action in consequence. The press, radio, and TV are frequently involved.
