Hogyan változott a hazai egyetemisták drogfogyasztása a Covid idején?
How has university students’ drug use changed during Covid-19?

Summary/Abstract: 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 toCovid-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 questionnaire in Spring 2020. Our results show that all risk behaviours have declined during the Covid-19 period. However, students who had had consumed drug beforeCovid-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.

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