Psychosocial Drivers Of Drugs Dependence Among University Students In Khartoum State

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the psychological and social motives for drugs abuse among university students in Khartoum State, as well as the extent to which there are differences between university students in Khartoum State in the research sample according to gender, age, religion, place of residence, social upbringing, marital status of the parents of the student who abuses drugs, and marital status of the student who abuses drugs, place of secondary education, economic situation of the family of the student who uses drugs in the study sample in Khartoum State. The study was conducted on a sample of 8,260 students, including about 4,335 male students, while the number of female students was about 3,920. The research was limited to university students, numbering 13 in Khartoum State. The results showed that the total number of students who used drugs even once amounted to about 1,311 students, male and female, with the number of males representing about 83.5%, while the number of females represented about 16.5% of the total number of students. The number of students who used drugs even once, while they represented, respectively, about 13.3% and 2.6% of the total number of students examined in the study population. It also turned out that the total number of students who used drugs and are still using drugs amounted to about 865 students, male and female, with the number of males representing about 75.3%, while the number of females represented about 24.7% of the total number of students, and they still using drugs, while the number of students representing the ranking is about 7.9%, 2.6% of the total number of students examined in the study population.

It was also shown that there are statistically significant differences between males and females who abuse drugs in the research sample in Khartoum State, and that there are statistically significant differences between the psychological and social motivations of drug-abusing university students and the increase in drug abuse. It was also shown that there are statistically significant differences between drug-abusing university students and the prevalence of drugs in Khartoum State in the research sample according to type, according to religion, according to the place of upbringing of the student who uses drugs, the social upbringing of the student who uses drugs, and this is a clear statistically significant indicator that there is a defect in the process of family upbringing and there is a clear deficiency in the role of the family in raising its children, as It is clear that the phenomenon of drug abuse among university students in Khartoum State is primarily a social problem. It was also shown that there are statistically significant differences between university students who abuse drugs in Khartoum State in the research sample according to the marital status of the parents of the university student who abuses drugs. It is clear that there is a relationship between the psychological and social motives for the university student’s drug abuse and the presence of the parents together in a continuous marital state that may be stable, which confirms There is a defect in the family upbringing process, a clear deficiency in the family’s role in raising its children, as it becomes clear that the problem of drug abuse among university students in Khartoum State is primarily a social problem.

It was also shown that there are statistically significant differences between university students who abuse drugs in Khartoum State in the research sample according to the marital status of the university student who uses drugs, and according to the residence of the university student who abuses drugs, as it was found that the place of residence outside the family does not represent a significant difference as much as they reside within their families. Consequently, these families suffer from major cracks in the way they raise their children. It was also shown that there are statistically significant differences between university students who abuse drugs in Khartoum State in the research sample according to the economic situation of the family of the university student who abuses drugs, as it is clear that the high economic level of the family does not represent a large group of abusers, as it was found that the most of the abusers are from moderate enough families.