My alma mater, "Heroin High"

Dirk Johnson, a journalist and faculty member of my other alma mater (NIU) recently wrote a piece for Newsweek.com about the death of a high school student from heroin. It's a nice article overall about the drug problems found in affluent areas, which has one paragraph that jumps out and gives my high school a name I'm glad I was never aware of while I attended.

"St. Charles, a prosperous town on the banks of the Fox River, is known for a charming elegance, rigorous academics and champion sports teams. It has also become known for its drug problems, its two prestigious high schools dubbed by some local teenagers as 'Heroin High.'"

It sounds like a bad band name some of my college roommates would use...