Drug Abuse among University and Medical College Students regarding Motivations and First Encounters: A Qualitative Study | Chapter 5 | Medical Science: Updates and Prospects Vol. 6

 

Background: The transition to higher education represents a critical period of vulnerability, where academic rigour and social shifts often precipitate maladaptive coping mechanisms, including substance use. Within the competitive landscape of tertiary education, students face unique stressors that may normalise self-medication and drug initiation.

 

Objective: To investigate the qualitative experiences, social influences, and academic pressures that contribute to the initiation and continuation of drug use among this population.

 

Methodology: A qualitative study was conducted at the Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Shaheed Monsur Ali Medical College, from January to July 2024. Using purposive sampling, ten students who self-reported current drug use were recruited from the Shahbag area. Data were analysed using thematic analysis to identify core drivers of substance initiation and usage patterns.

 

Results: Thematic analysis revealed that drug use was primarily driven by the need for coping mechanisms against chronic academic stress and anxiety. Social circles played a pivotal role in the normalisation of substances, with first encounters often triggered by peer pressure and curiosity. Furthermore, many students reported using substances for perceived cognitive enhancement, such as improved focus for long study hours, despite acknowledging the long-term negative health and social consequences. These findings suggest that the university environment and social networks act as both a gateway and a sustaining factor for drug abuse.

 

Conclusion: Drug initiation in this population is deeply tied to social environments and a lack of healthy coping strategies for academic rigour. Prevention programs should move beyond basic awareness and focus on robust mental health support, stress management workshops, and debunking myths regarding cognitive enhancers.

 

 

Author(s) Details

Nazia Sharmin
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Shaheed Monsur Ali Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

Faisal Mohammed Pasha
Department of Community Medicine & Public Health, Shaheed Monsur Ali Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

Md. Syedur Rahaman Sumon
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Bashundhara Ad-din Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

Rowshon Ara Begum
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Khwaja Yunus Ali Medical College, Sirajganj, Bangladesh.

 

Nuzhat Andalib
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Faridpur Medical College, Faridpur, Bangladesh.

 

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Role of Vacuum Therapy in Treatment of Infected Pseudoaneurysmectomy Wounds: A Clinical Approach | Chapter 3 | Research Highlights in Disease and Health Research Vol. 1

 Infected pseudoaneurysmectomy wounds pose a meaningful challenge to any vascular surgeon. Delayed wound curative is a major concern in specific complicated and chronic wounds accompanying co morbidities. It causes pain, morbidity, extended treatment, and necessitates main reconstructive surgery, that imposes a significant social and economic burden.This chapter aims to judge the results & benefits brought by the restricted application of VAC in inmates with infected pseudoaneurysmectomy wounds.This study was attended on 15 patients of miscellaneous ages and both genders at Al-Azhar University Hospitals and Matariya Teaching Hospital. The findings demonstrated that In correlation of event of VAC with other fields of estimate there was mathematical significance for duration accompanying sex (P profit; 0.043), HCV infection (P value; 0.032), IV dependence on illegal substance (P value; 0.003), ESRD (P profit; 0.003), region of pseudoaneurysm (P value; 0.003), height of wound at start (P value; 0) & number of dressings (P advantage; 0). There was statistical significance for complexities incidence accompanying the presence of HCV infection (P worth; 0.029) & wound size (P worth; 0.029) in the correlation of complications occurrence with the trainings of assessment. The study concluded thatVAC is valuable in the treatment of polluted pseudoaneurysmectomy wounds. It stabilises the wound, reduces edoema, reduces bacterial load, improves tissue perfusion, and excites granulation tissue conception. It is simple and effective in conditions of reducing wound length, treatment duration, and difficulty incidence.

Author(s) Details:

Mohammed Hashem Elgazzar,
Vascular Surgery Department, Matariya Teaching Hospital, Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt.

Omar Mokhtar Ibrahim Elhaig,
Vascular Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

Mohammed Abd Al-Fattah,
General Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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Self-medication Practice: A Way Forward| Chapter 5 | Current Overview on Pharmaceutical Science Vol. 4

 Medications are a detracting tool in community health practise. Since the 1980s, self-medication (SM) is of prime community health importance as the World Health Organization, altered some formula drugs to be convinced over the counter to defeat the burden on health-care professionals. Each drug has allure own advantages and hurts. As a result, they must always be secondhand with caution. Given this, a current trend in scrutinizing the prevalence of SM has embellished. Even the addictions are considered generally as a kind of self-drug, which can make more copies of anxiety or pain temporarily, but influences the lives and health of two together the addicted and their desired ones. Hence, this review critically judged the studies to put arrive the basic idea of SM.

Author(s) Details:

H. Mythri,
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sri Siddhartha Dental College and Hospital, SSAHE University, Tumkur, Karnataka, India.

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Counselling Services and Management of Drug Abuse among Students in Bahati Division, Kenya | Chapter 12 | New Horizons in Education and Social Studies Vol. 1

Drug abuse among secondary school students in Kenyan schools has been on the increase and identified as one of the major causes of indiscipline and unrest in schools. The marked increase in consumption of both illegal and legal drugs in our schools is continually highlighted in the local press media. The Ministry of Education and National Campaign against Drugs Abuse (NACADA) have shown great concern about this menace. This book chapter describe a research study that sought to determine the influence of counselling on management of students’ drug abuse with special reference to Bahati Division in Nakuru District, Kenya. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design. It targeted all the 47 secondary schools with a student population of 7767 students and 472 teachers in the area. A random sample of 120 students, ten teacher counsellors and ten head teachers were selected from the ten schools. Data was collected through administration of questionnaires with the selected respondents. The collected data was then processed and analysed using descriptive statistics with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 11.5 for windows. The study established the following findings. Cheap and easily available drugs were the most commonly used types of drugs and were also considered as legal and generally accepted in the society. Proper implementation and utilization of counselling services had a positive effect in the management of drug abuse among secondary school students. Counselling services did reduce the level of drug taking in schools. The study recommended that there is a need of emphasizing more on counselling as an effective mechanism of managing drug abuse among secondary school students and that counselling should target the most vulnerable group of students in order to minimize the vice in schools. 

Author(s) Details

Isaac Wanjohi King’ori
Department of Psychology, Laikipia University, Nyahururu, Kenya.

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