Cocaine Use Largely Secretive at Santa Clara, Where Student Dealers Profit Off Expensive Drug Habits

Editor's note: All students' names have been changed to protect their privacy.

Christine Swift tells Sean Cowher to change the song on iTunes -- she knows the perfect one to listen to. Sean switches the song on his dorm room computer from a slow hip-hop tune to one with a bass-heavy beat.

It's Friday night, and Sean and Christine are getting high. Not just the typical, smoke-a-few-blunts-and-get-stoned high -- it's the intense but short-lived high that comes from snorting an 8-ball of cocaine, 3.5 grams worth.

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