Study shows that college students involved in greek life are more vulnerable to substance abuse

Professors at the University of Michigan compared the patterns of substance abuse in those in greek life organizations and those that are not. Data was collected by 5883 undergraduate students in two waves, as a freshmen in college and then two years later as a junior, and tracked not only members of fraternities but those in sororities. As you can see in the chart below, the results that were found were that those in a fraternity produced higher results in all categories and that as they spent more time in the fraternity the higher their results are. This study negatively affects the perception of greek life to those not in it as they may not know of the community service and philanthropy that greek organizations hold every year.