In 2016, police uncovered a multi-million dollar drug ring operated by fraternity brothers at the College of Charleston. The police report reads like a Breaking Bad episode, complete with firearms, grenade launchers, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in hidden cash. Read Max's book about this story: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/among-the-bros-max-marshall?variant=41509299290146 For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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There's a country song that every fraternity guy in the South loves, The Road Goes On Forever and the Party Never Ends by Robert Earl Keene. It's so beloved by fraternity guys, there's even a country song about how much fraternity guys love this song. Something that I think is pretty true of fraternity culture is the party never ends.
No matter who gets arrested, no matter who dies, no matter what happens, There will be a party the next weekend, and sometimes the party is a funeral party, but nothing stops the party. Nothing.
I'm Margo Gray. This week on Campus Files, the story of a multi-million dollar drug ring run by fraternity brothers at the College of Charleston.
So my name's Max Marshall. I'm an investigative journalist from Texas.
Max has written for a bunch of publications, including The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and Esquire. And back in 2016, he was working on a story for GQ about cocaine smuggling in Ho Chi Minh City. it got him thinking about a different drug, a drug that he'd seen everywhere back when he was in college, Xanax.
Xanax is an anti-anxiety pill, and it's often referred to as a bar because of its rectangular shape.
There's a lot of demand both for Xanax as sort of an anti-anxiety drug that you could take if you're stressed out for a test or you're trying to sleep or you're trying to get over a breakup, but also it had this huge demand as a party drug.
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