The Role of Public Participation in Social Prevention of Drug Offenses

Drug is one of the disasters of the present era and has been introduced as one of the crisis of 21st century. Prevention of this destructive problem is the best way to protect public health and provide social security. Public participation in the prevention of occurrence of drug addiction as a social prevention is the best type of it, which the present study aimed to investigate how people participate in the prevention of drug use and understanding the ways of attraction of their participation and the barriers in this area. The research method was analytic descriptive research method that was performed by using of documents and library resources and related books and researches. People in various ways can help to social prevention of drug use such as a strong presence in the family, education and control of children, informing government forces and establishing grass roots groups of fighting drugs. Public participation in prevention will vary according to the capabilities of each society. The effect of facilities such as announcing specific phone numbers, allocating information sites, announcing calls and message retention numbers, allocating e-mail and mailbox and especially giving importance to public reports and rapid and timely response in order to participate people in prevention is considered.