Keta, coke or MDMA

Due to the corona crisis, students party less and spend more time indoors. What does that mean for their drinking and drug use? Do they use more or less? Together with others or alone? And are they using different drugs compared to before the crisis? A recent survey on drug use in times of corona is compared to an earlier survey in 2018.

Increasing internationalization also leads to a higher percentage of drug users on the EUR, according to the EM survey. But why do EUR students use drugs and which ones are most popular? Read it in this overview.

XTC, it is not very addictive and if you use it in moderation you will not be hurt by it too much, right? Many people from the province of Noord-Brabant think otherwise. The province has been plagued by incidents with drug waste dumping, fires and discovered drug labs in residential areas. The Utrecht researcher Damian Zaitch exposes the world behind the ‘innocent’ pill.

Which world is hidden behind the weekly offers in the Whatsapp conversation with your regular drug dealer? And who really is that man or woman, who comes to deliver your keta at home? And what do students buy from that dealer? Reporter Ivar Laanen was allowed to spend a night driving shotgun in the car of a former student who regularly delivers to students.

The EM drug survey shows that male students are more likely to be drug users than their female counterparts, and the drug of choice is often XTC/MDMA. A cultural difference can also be seen between the faculties. Noteworthy is that, among other things, Erasmus MC students are less likely to be users than students at most of the other faculties.

According to the Trimbos Institute, hard drugs are often consumed by highly educated people, because they visit nightlife more often. The students interviewed in the article below indicate that they often use drugs with friends while going out or at festivals. Drug use among students is relatively stable, but worrisome, a spokeswoman of Trimbos says.