Abstract
In most European countries the ratio of addicts and normal people is 1 to 5,000, and in some third world countries such as Morocco, Egypt, and South Africa this figure is 1 to 1,000. In Iran, the situation is worse, and there is one drug addict per 100 people. The research method in this study is analytical descriptive. The study population consisted of all rehabilitated addicted men and women who were spending their time in prison. Total sample size were 134 people (99 men and 35 women).A special designed questionnaire used to collect data, which included socio-demographic characteristics. The validity of the questionnaire has content validity and for reliability, Cronbach α was used which was 0.78. The formal years of education was 4.3 year. The average age of the first drug use was 12 years for men and 22 years for women. Sixty-nine point seven percent of men used drugs with their friends and 31.4% of women used drug with their husbands. The men more than women, single men more than married women, and illiterates or poor literates were more at risk. Most men blamed bad friends and women blamed physical and psychological problems as the cause of addiction. The singles got addicted due to bad friends and married individuals were addicted due to emotional distress. The majority of age group (27-13 years), got addicted due to bad friends and older groups addicted due to emotional distress. In other words, the older the person gets, the influence of bad friends decreases, and the effect of psychological distress due to conflict and adversity increases.
Highlights
Today, the problem of addiction extends beyond the boundaries of health and treatment and turned into a social crisis and an ominous phenomenon
Are age, gender, performing religious chores, and marital status involved in the issue of addiction?. In this descriptive research is descriptive- analytical, the study population consisted of addicted men of rehabilitation centre and addicted women in prison, in which the sample size comprised 134 participants, including 99 men and 35 women
Seventy-four percent of men were under 27 years old and 48.6% of women were at the same age group
Summary
The problem of addiction extends beyond the boundaries of health and treatment and turned into a social crisis and an ominous phenomenon. Drug abuse is one of the most controversial issues in the field of psychology and sociology that attracted experts. That it can be said with certainty that increasing use of drugs has been turned into one of the large and complex problems in human societies. This complexity arises because addition is a biological, mental, sociological, economic, and cultural problem and it could not be paid attention only from one angle (Aghabakhshi et al, 2009). Drug addiction as one of the greatest challenges in human populations, has a lot of hidden and evident dimensions and angles (Habibi et al, 2012)
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