Associated Factors with Addiction Relapse in Patients of Referring to Addiction Treatment Centers in Ilam: a Case-Control Study

Addiction is a mental and social disorder which causes psychological and physiological dependence among addi-cts and affects their physical, psychological and social performance. An important asp-ect of this issue is the relapse to addiction after treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the factors related with addiction relapse in patients referring to addiction treatment centers in Ilam city. This survey was a case- control study that was conducted in addiction treatment centers in Ilam city during 2012. Participants of this research were 93 cases (addicts who had been tre-ated and relapsed in the sixth month after treatment) and 93 controls (addicts who had been treated and had not relapsed in the sixth month after treatment) in four addi-ction treatment centers. The data were anal-yzed by t-test, chi-square and logistic regr-ession tests using SPSS 16 software. In univariate analysis, there were significant variables including history of addiction treatment, contact with addicted friends, educational level, and history of addiction in family, smoking, age, family size and type of drug. Moreover, in the multivariate analysis using logistic regr-ession, also there were significant variables such as age, history of addiction treatment, contact with addicted friends, history of addiction in family, job status, educational level, Smoking, family size, marital status and type of drug. Discussion & In general, prev-ention of risk factors for addiction relapse is a multi-dimensional program that with its implementation in future can prevent from relapse in the addicts under treatment.