Trojan Outreach Promotes Safe Spring Break

It is reported that during spring break, more than half of all males and 40% of all females binge drink themselves until they are sick, addiction.com states, which pulled statistics from the Journal of American College Health. 

With spring break just around the corner for Troy University students, Trojan Outreach encouraged students to have a safe, substance free, spring break on Wednesday. 

The group hosted a booth in the Trojan Center with the goal of displaying to the student body the dangers of drug and alcohol addition, by spreading the word through means of a popular television game show. 

Trojan Outreach encouraged students to spin the wheel of misfortune, a wheel detailing ways people can get themselves into trouble through substance abuse. The wheel featured situations like car wrecks, criminal records and serious injuries. 

While sugary sweets are not exactly the same as illegal drugs, the group used candy to provide students with a visual reparation of how drugs can be tampered with, through the passage of dealers. 

Mackenzie Martin, a member of Trojan Outreach, explains how a simple piece of Starburst candy provided students with a visual aid on the dangers of illegal substances traveling through multiple hands.