TY - JOUR T1 - The Prevalence of Drug Abuse among University Students in Tehran TT - شیوع‌ مصرف مواد در میان دانشجویان شهر تهران JF - ijpcp JO - ijpcp VL - 13 IS - 4 UR - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-365-en.html Y1 - 2008 SP - 335 EP - 342 KW - prevalence KW - drug use KW - student KW - cigarette KW - water pipe KW - opium KW - addiction KW - Tehran N2 -   Abstract   Objectives: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of drug use among university students in Tehran.   Method: 2997 students studying in 2005-2006 the academic year who were randomly selected from six universities in Tehran were evaluated. All students responded to a questionnaire which was designed to measure the prevalence of drug use. Arrangement was made with the instructor of each selected class and questionnaires were administered by a trained drug prevention liaison in classes.   Results: The study showed a relatively high prevalence of soft drugs [water pipe (34%), cigarette (24%) and alcohol (17%)], and a low prevalence of hard drugs [opium (2.3%), hashish (2.2%), and ecstasy (0.7%)]. Female students had lower rates of drug use in comparison to male students for all drugs and the long life, last year and last month drug use rate of non-dormitory students was significantly higher than dormitory resident students for most drugs (p M3 ER -