The Effect of Drug Addiction on Education from University Students’ Point of View

Introduction: higher education system in each country is mainly responsible for training specialists and efficient personnel in different levels of government. this system has been affected by social damages, which one of the most important of these damages is drug addiction. therefore, this study aimed to investigate effect of drug addiction in education from university students' view points.materials and methods: the current descriptive analytic study has been conducted in community of yazd university in academic year of 2010-2011. for this purpose, 406 students of this university were selected via stratified random sampling method who responded to a researcher-made questionnaire that its validity and reliability were confirmed utilizing psychometric standards. regarding data description, frequency indexes, percentage, mean, and standard deviation were applied. moreover, inferential tests of chi-square test and correlation coefficient of pearson were utilized.results: approximately 21.9% of students suggested the drug abuse by their friend whose the rate of drug use was 25.9%. in addition 34.1% of subjects were announced that the most suitable place is their friend house. according to our results the main reason for using drugs were to reduce spiritual stress and their inability to say no in response to friends' suggestion. our result also indicated that there is a significant negative relationship between the use of drug and educational process. in contrast, no significant relationship between demographic variables and use of addiction drugs was found.conclusion: one of the most common social traumas associated with youth generation, specially college students, is addiction to narcotic drugs, that in addition to extensive economic loss, would jeopardize their physical and social health. one of the most important ways to prevent and control the drug use is recognizing its factors as well as the peripheral circumstances of this trauma. moreover, investigating students’ view point regarding this issue is of great significance that has been regarded in the present study.