The opinions of hospitalized addicts in Kerman rehabilitation centers about factors affecting their tendency toward drugs

Recognizing factors and reasons affecting addiction can be useful in reducing the prevalence of addiction and as a result prevent various mental‚ economical‚ cultural, and social complications. The present study aimed to determine the factors leading to addiction based on the opinions of drug addicts hospitalized in addiction centers in Kerman.

Methods and Materials:

 This survey included 200 male drug addicts hospitalized in addiction centers in Kerman. Data was collected by a researcher-made questionnaire which consisted of two parts. The first part included demographic features and the second part included reasons of tendency to use narcotics. The reasons were divided into three categories of personal‚ familial, and social levels. Data was analyzed using dispersion and central indices, nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis and Mann Withney U tests.

The minimum age for starting addiction was 9. Among various personal‚ familial and social factors‚ imitating addicted adults (46.5%)‚ addiction of parents (53.5%) and relationships with addicted friends (78%) had the most important roles in the tendency to use narcotics.

According to our results‚ family and peers can make individuals more vulnerabale using narcotics and thus addiction.