<p>Most drug users, alcoholics, chronic depressives, those ridden with anxiety and insomnia, and a slew of other mental illnesses are highly intelligent. Reed attracts highly intelligent youth. Drug abuse and suicidal ideations are not unique to Reed in any way, except for the fact that a higher concentration of bright people challenging themselves intellectually is virtually guaranteed to produce an elevated number of substance-related difficulties. </p>
<p>With this in mind, the support networks of the school are extraordinarily perceptive of the health issues facing such groups of students. Highly trained and extremely caring community members make the stressors of Reed bearable for the enormously vast majority of students. Beyond this, of course, a culture of self-responsibility encourages personal evaluation of the effects of one’s behavior upon herself and her community.</p>