The Prevalence of Tobacco, Hubble-Bubble, Alcoholic Drinks, Drugs, and Stimulants among High-School Students

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the prevalence oftobacco, hubble-bubble, alcoholic drinks, and other drugs among Karaj high-schoolstudents in 2011. The research method was a descriptive-sectional study.Participants of this study were 447 girl and boy high-school students of Karaj thatwere selected by clustering random sampling. For data gathering, drug abusequestionnaire, and risk and protective factors inventory were administered amongselected sample. According to the results, 57% of students in this studysaid that they have had experiences with a kind of drug including tobacco, hubblebubble,alcoholic drinks, and other drugs at least once in their lives. The studyshowed the prevalence for soft drugs: hubble-bubble, tobacco, and alcoholic drinks,and for hard drugs ecstasy, opium, hashish, meth, crack, and heroin respectively. Soft drugs including hubble-bubble, tobacco, and alcoholic drinks, arethe most common among Karaj high-school students. The prevalence of hard drugsamong them is rather low.