Drug Abuse in Higher Education: Types, Causes, and Academic Consequences Among Students

The study was named "Drug Abuse in Higher Education: Types, Causes, and Academic Consequences among Students”. It looked at how drugs effect on students' grades. The major goals of this study were to find out what kinds of drugs students were using. Find out how much drug misuse affects students' grades, to learn about the most typical reasons why students engage in such harmful ways. Find out what makes students utilize drugs. Descriptive study design was chosen because it allowed the investigator to explain the specifics and traits of a certain phenomenon. The sample was made up of 200 students who were chosen using convenient sampling from two public and two private universities. Data analyzed with the help of SPSS version 26.0. T- Test was done for results. Mean and standard deviation was also done for results. The results show how important it is to have good plans to stop drug usage among university’s students. Universities and politicians can come up with specific ways to help with this problem by learning about the types of drugs that are abused, the reasons why they are abused, and how they affect academic performance.