Prevalence of Narcotic Abuse among Iranian Adolescent and Factors Related to it among them

The aim of this present study was to evaluate the Prevalence of narcotic abuse among Iranian high school student and factors related to it among them. The statistical population of this descriptive survey was all Iranian high school students that by cluster sampling we distributed and collected 2400 self-report questionnaires between high school student in 20011-2012 academic year in five provinces (Tehran, Ghom, Khoozestan, Mazandaran and Kermanshah) .Then these questionnaires were coded and analyzed by SPSS software in descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that prevalence of Narcotic substance in Iranian boy student was 5.25% and in Iranian girl student was 3.75%. The researchers showed most important variables that affect to use these substances including Smoking, number of siblings, having sports activities, general knowledge of drugs and psychotropic status, maternal education, father's occupation, the unemployment odd hours, use of drugs by the student and the knowledge of narcotics and psychotropic substances Battalion. The survey results showed high prevalence of Narcotic substance use and the need to develop prevention programs by attention to some variable that affect to drug abuse among this people.