Comparing continuity quit addiction time in participant persons and non participant persons in Narcotics Anonymous in City of Mashhad in 2012

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings are used to increase quit time of addict persons after the detoxification. Quit addiction program contains of 97% non-drug treatment and 3% drug treatment. The aim of this study was to compare participating and non-participating individuals continue Addiction Narcotics Anonymous meetings. This descriptive-comparative study was performed on 300 individuals participated in the meetings of Narcotics Anonymous and non-participating provider refers to the Saman rehabilitation clinic، Mashhad، Iran. Simple random sampling was used to select addict persons. A questionnaire، including demographic information and the continuity of quit time، were used. The highest continuity quit time of addiction were in 6-12 months (38%) in participant of NA and 3-6 months (45%) in non-participant (p<0. 002). and lowest in those participants leave continuity de rajlsat 24-36 months (4%) and non-participating 18-24 months (6/66%). This study showed that participating in the meetings of Narcotics Anonymous increases the duration of the time of quit addiction.