Study the history of narcotics and evaluate the impact of adherence to the Islamic beliefs in the tendency of Ardabil Payame Noor university students to drug abuse through educational achievement

Addiction is one of the four century crises that involve communities. Now, according to the annual growth rate of addiction (8 percent) and population growth (under 3%), the number of opiate users is estimated 6 million. In addition, the prevalence of drug abuse among young people is growing as the age of the risk of addiction in Iran during the last two decades. Also it has been fallen to under 20 years and sometimes school period is over. In order to Study the history of narcotics and evaluate the impact of adherence to the Islamic beliefs in the tendency of Ardabil Payame Noor university students to drug abuse through educational achievement.The approximate numbers of 8,000 students in the first semester of the academic year 2009-2010 of Ardebil Payam Noor University, 403 students were selected as sample by cluster randomly sampling. Sample size was calculated based on Morgan table, including the α=0.05. The research method was a descriptive correlation. data was collected using a following questionnaire 1- A questionnaire related adherence to Islamic beliefs with reliability &=0.98, which includes some components such as obligation to saying prayers (&=0.93), practicable obligation to fasting (&=0.94), practicable obligation to divine legal orders (&=0.96), and practicable obligation to having relation with religious people (&=0.92); 2- Questionnaire related to drug consumption with reliability &=0.86, which includes some components such as family factor (&=0.67), social environmental factors (&=0.59), friends (&=0.63), and personal characteristics (&=0.78). For achievement, the students previous term average score and total average were used collected data was reported descriptively, however, the main questions of the research were analyzed inferentially using linear analysis. The result showed that: there is a direct negative and significant relation between adherence to Islamic beliefs and drug consumption. Total indirect impacts of adherence to Islamic beliefs on student’s tendency to drug consumption were -0.06, which is a very low rate.