Background: In modern era, psychotropic drugs are mainly used by university students and health care workers. The psychotropics are taken mainly to make a change with reality and to seek pleasure. However psychotropic drugs causes many problems such as memory disturbances, interference with concentration and decision making, chronic non- communicable diseases and mental disorders, impairing work efficiency, personal injury, work accidents, remaining absent from duty, job loss, even to the extent of death of the healthcare professional. Methods: An electronic questionnaire to figure out the frequency and factors associated with the use of psychotropic substances was prepared and circulated through social media platform like What's app. We received responses from 164 healthcare students and workers, which were then included in the study. Results: In our study, 24% of participants reported consumption of psychotropic substances. Tobacco was the most commonly consumed psychotropic agent (30%) followed by anti-depressant drugs (28%) Amongst the anti-depressants, majority of the participants consumed amitriptyline (19%). Amongst the anxiolytics, majority of the participants consumed clonazepam (55%). Conclusion: Majority of the participants reported that increased workload, increased stress and poor job satisfaction could be responsible for the consumption of these agents. About 20% participants reported that mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, psychosis, etc could be responsible for consumption of psychotropic agents.