A quantitative, descriptive and exploratory study, with a cross-sectional design aimed at investigated the role of the family, spirituality and entertainment in moderate relationship of influence of pairs and drug consuption among university students of one university. The sample was composed of 250 students from a public university in Brazil. A questionnaire was developed with 5 validated scales that interrogated about the influence of the peer group, the family relationships, the entertainment, the spirituality, and drug consumption. It was used SPSS version 18 for the statistical analysis. The data indicated that 90.8% of students had at least one friend who is drug consumer, most of them use alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. There was significant association between some academic and sociocultural factors and the consumption of licit and illicit drugs. We recommended that some preventive strategies should be elaborated considering the influence of sociocultural factors about drug consuption among university students.
Drug abuse; University; Family; Cultural factors; Peer group