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    Drug abuse and students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Arua city-Uganda
    (Muni University, 2025-03-18) Tabu, Rosemary
    The study aimed to examine the relationship between drug abuse and students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Arua City-Uganda. The objectives of the study were to establish whether drug addiction has a relationship with students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Arua city. To examine drug related behavioral disorder and its relationship with students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Arua city. Lastly to analyze drug related physical disorder and its relationship with students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Arua City. The study adopted Jessors’ problem behavior theory. A convergent parallel (concurrent) design was used. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted with a sample size of 297 respondents. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the students, while purposive sampling was used to select head teachers and teachers in charge of student discipline. Quantitative data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (Spearman correlation coefficients), while qualitative analysis employed a thematic approach. Findings revealed a significantly moderate positive correlation (r=.622, p=.000, p<=0.01)) between drug addiction and student discipline; a moderate positive correlation (r= .561, p=.000<0.01) between behavioral disorder and student discipline; a moderate positive significant correlation coefficient (r= .606, p=.000<0.01) between physical disorder and students’ discipline. Thus, it was found that drug addiction (b=.747, P=.000) and physical disorder (b=.345, p=.000) significantly affected students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Arua City. It was also found that behavioral disorder (b= .004, p=.964) which was non-significant. It is recommended that students who are found to be addicted to drugs should be isolated by the management, schools should involve parents upon suspension of culprits from school, and extreme cases should be refered to correctional facilities for rehabilitation. Sensitization of students on desirable behavior should be enforced in schools by the guidance and counselling department, parents of those with deviant behavior should be involved in disciplinary processes. Collaboration amongst schools can be enforced by City education department whereby they engage parents to manage culprits in cases where physical disorders are evident to avoid spread of the practice.