Evaluation Study of University Programs for Preventing Male and Female Students from Drug Abuse

A field study on a sample of universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate university programs directed at protecting male and female students in Saudi universities from drug abuse and the extent of their suitability, as well as the difficulties facing their implementation, arriving at codified concepts aimed at determining the scientific components for building these programs and defining new forms for them. The study used a social sample-survey approach. As for data collection tools, the researcher relied on the questionnaire tool with a sample of experts and specialists responsible for designing and implementing these programs at Saudi universities in the city of Riyadh. The study reached a set of results that included answers to its main and subsidiary questions. The study also presented its scientific vision emerging from its theoretical and field treatment through its proposed vision for a set of executive mechanisms to increase the effectiveness of university programs provided to prevent drug abuse. They consist of the necessity of developing financial resources to finance construction, design and implementation of drug prevention programs, advanced planning of drug prevention programs in Saudi universities, developing drug prevention programs in accordance with the expectations of male and female students benefiting from drug prevention programs, and working to prevent conflicts of interests with those who benefit from the existence of drugs in the society