The Comparison of Social Support and Deprivation in Narcotics and Psychoactive Drugs Addicts and Normal Personal

The purpose of this study was to compare the social support and deprivation in narcotics and psychoactive addicts and normal personal. The method of this research was causative-comparative and the statistical population involved all narcotics and psychoactive drugs addicts who referred to quitting a addiction centers in miyaneh city in 2011. From this population، 40 psychoactive drugs addicts and 40 narcotics addicts were selected with the use of available and purposeful sampling and matched with 40 normal personal according to age، sex، educational level، and marital status. Assessment tools consisted of inventory Social support and Social deprivation check list and the Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)، LSD test، pearson coefficient of correlation and multiple regression. Results showed that psychoactive drugs addicts as compared with narcotics addicts and normal personal; and narcotics addicts as compared with normal personal to avail of socail support low and to have experience social deprivation (P 0/001). Multiple regression analysis also showed that low social support to predict social deprivation in addicts (P 0/001). This findings to indicate multiple social deprivation is risky factors in psychoactive drugs abuse.