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The Effect of Drug Abuse on Students and Others
The Effect of Drug Abuse on Students and Others
Prakash Chandra Roy 1

Abstract
Bangladesh with the most populous and poorest countries in the world faces many challenges including drug that has become an issue due to its geographical location, poverty and illiteracy. Although there is no precise figure of the drug dependant people, but is estimated around 4.0 million people mostly youths are dependant to some form of drugs, and increased trend among all kinds of people is alarming. The present study focuses the relationship between drug abuse and criminal activities. The statistical method chosen for this study was Descriptive statistics and we analyze in terms Univariate analysis and Bi-variate Analysis. Drug abuse causes various criminal activities as like theft, burglary, robbery, attempt to suicide, hijacking, shoplifting, in many cases murder, or other antisocial criminal activities. Drug abuse affects the whole society, in a border perspective. It also hampers the social development. Societal development will not be possible if we are not able to make the drug free youth society. The study of The Effect of Drug Abuse on Students and Others will explain the relationship between abusing drugs and getting involved in criminal activities in the students and others of Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, and Tangail.

Keywords: Drug, Drug Addiction, Effect of Drug abuse, Drug and Crime
1. Graduate Student (M.S.), Department of Criminology and Police Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh Tangail-1902.

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Introduction and Background
The understanding of the relationship between drug abuse and criminal activities is currently at the heart of criminological research. There is a consistent worry in and by the mass media, communities, parents and the general public at large of the various problems brought about by youth, specially the students who abuse drugs. Drug abuse has been a rising social and


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