Associate professor, Department of Urban planning, Payame-nour University, Mashhad, Iran

In addition to the problem of drug addiction, the indifference of citizens towards this social problem is one of the main concerns of our society. This is an applied, descriptive, and qualitative research which made use of a data-based method. 28 students studying at Kerman Azad University were selected via purposive-available sampling method. A semi-structured interview was used as the data collection tool. To reach the reliability criterion, three methods were used: control or validation by members, analytical comparisons, and the use of audit techniques. The data were collected on the basis of the contextual theory and were analyzed in three stages of open, elective, and selective (central) coding. The findings showed that factors such as inappropriate platforms, preventive participation/social participation, as well as reducing the level of civic commitment/isolationism and normative antipathy were the most important causal factors; antisocial behavior patterns/personality vulnerability/cultural hatred were contextual factor; and civil and social indifference/social dissatisfaction/social learning, were intervening factors