Study of Mediator Role of the Police in Relationship Between Family Support and Social Support Among Adolescent Addicts Living in Hormozgan

Today, promotion of drugs is one of the adolescent's problems. Because of easy access and consumption in synthetic drugs, the tendency to use them has increased among adolescents. The main purpose of the study is to examine the mediator role of the police in relationship between family support and social support among adolescent addicts living in Hormozgan (province).
This descriptive study is of correlation and path analysis type, population consisted of all adolescents between 15-20 years old who were addicted to one of drugs, then 345 available individuals were selected from addicted adolescents as a sample, data were collected through questionnaires including Parenting Styles by Bamrind(1991), Social Support by Zimet, et al. (1998) and 10 developed (self-designed) questions to understand the supportive role of police. The data were analyzed by using descriptive inferential Kolmogorov-Smirnov and path analysis tests as well as SPSS.20 software and AMOS.
The coefficient of path analysis showed reverse and indirect effect of social support on careless support of family, direct effect of social support on the police support, reverse and indirect effect of the police support on careless and despotic support of family, indirect effect of the police support on strongly support of family, and finally direct effect of the social support on strongly support of family.
Social support is impressive for appropriate styles of family support and improving the police support of family.