Drug Addiction in Urban Life of Bangladesh: A Sociological Study for Exploring the Causes

Drug addiction is becoming a social problem in Bangladesh. It creates many social offences. Consequently, the youth – the future of the nation – are running into the depth of darkness. This study tries to discover the causes of drug addiction in the urban life of Bangladesh. To conduct this study, analytical research design, social survey method & stratified random sampling have been followed. To measure the causes of drug addiction, the Likert Scaling five rating scale has been applied. Further, for hypotheses testing, an ᵡ2 – test has been used to test the degree to which two or more groups vary or differ in an experiment. The present findings suggest that the majority (67.67 % ) of drug addicts think that drug addiction is high/very high, simultaneously 9.10% medium and 23.23% low/very low due to the influence of frustration, addicted parents and peer group in society. Again, the result of hypotheses testing suggests that a man can become addicted to drugs by the influence of frustration and peer group not influenced by the parental drug addiction. Therefore, these findings may help the policy makers and planners of the government and non-government organizations to take appropriate initiatives to prevent drug addiction in society.

Keywords- Drug addiction, Frustration, Parental drug addiction, Peer group, Urban life, Bangladesh