Social And Academic Aspects Of Drug Abuse Among Students Of Jadavpur University

This study was conducted to measure of the Drug Abuse among the student of Jadavpur University. A total of 100 samples were randomly taken from various department of Arts, Science and Engineering faculty of Jadavpur University. As a tool of data collection the researchers used ‘Drug abuse screening test’ (DAST) developed by Dr. Harvey A. Skinner (York University, Toronto) and adopted in Bengali version by the present researcher. The rate of prevalence of drug abuse related mental and emotional problems or academic problems, social crime are mild. Few students were involved in treatment programmed. But to eradicate the problems those students who are engaged in more or less drug abuse need counselling