Drug Abuse in University Students

Abstract

Many of the medications which have legitimate medical uses for people with a variety of illnesses and injuries. The nonmedical use of a prescription or over-the counter (OTe) medication implies that the user is using it for reasons other than those indicated in the prescribing literature or on the box inserts. Determining respondents' level of psychoactive drug use was central to the study. A wide heterogeneous of young aged students are sampled in this study who are from different background and was representative of our entire society. We sought to develop a questionnaire which would indicate respondents' involvement with the drugs. Information regarding the study was collected by making a questionnaire and used as an indicator for each user's level of drug use. A lot of reasons were manifested during the interviewing including study result, job after education, love and relationships, family matter, social status, effect of friendcircle, easy availability, curiocity etc which are associated with the depression among students. But if we sort those reasons we found that the ratio of males abuse this class of drugs those who experience depression mainly thinking their future, the job market, friendcircle has also a big impact. On the other hand female students those are more likely to abuse this class of drugs are in relationship with any person which indicates that love affairs also have effect behind drug abuse. Other reasons were found also playing the role of depression and lead to this group of drug abuse. Availability of those drugs is silent reason we found in our study for both groups. From the findings of this study, it is revealed that 23% of male and 15% of female students abused antidepressant drugs, 17% male and 11 % female abused anti-anxiety drug, where as 16.5% male and 18.5% female abused the sedative class of drugs. The study found that substances/drug abuse among our university students is assuming a dangerous dimension and hence a need for immediate eradication.