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• How has university students’ drug use changed during Covid-19?

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  Petra Arnold

  Anna Gelencsér

  Zsuzsanna Elekes

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  The Covid-19 outbreak and the lockdown have had significant psychological and social impacts
  on everyone’s life. Changing life circumstances and daily routines, job losses, uncertainty, have
  put a psychological strain on us. As a consequence, we may experience risk behaviours more
  often than before. The aim of the study is to analyse how risk behaviours have changed due to
  Covid-19 among university students in Hungary, and to identify the psycho-social factors along which the shift can be explained. The analysis is based on the data of ‘Covid-19 International
  Student Well-Being Study’ – a study initiated and coordinated by the University of Antwerpen
  involving 75 universities from 26 countries. Four Hungarian universities – Corvinus University
  of Budapest, the University of Debrecen, the University of Miskolc, and the University of Szeged
  participated in the study. The survey was conducted among all university students who filled
  in an online questtioannaire in Spring 2020. Our results show that all risk behavoiurs have
  declined during the Covid-19 period. However, students who had had consumed drug before
  Covid-19 have been using them more frequently during the pandemic. Our results suggest that
  the recreational use have probably declined and the problematic use have probably increased
  among university students during the pandemic. Our results highlight the fact that students for
  whom the crisis situation imposed by the quarantine was hard to handle are more likely to use
  substances more frequently, so offering them prevention and treatment options is crucial.