The Barriers to Implementation of Islamic Republic of Iran Policy in the Prevention of Addiction (1996-2016)

This research was carried out with the aim of implementing a policy research and determination and ranking of administrative barriers to policy making in the Islamic Republic of Iran in the primary prevention of addiction.

The research methods in this article are Delphi technique, incorporating content analysis, factor analysis and analytical hierarchy process(AHP). The study population includes four groups of policymakers, executives, experts and beneficiaries (improved addicts). The data collected in our implementation research led us to five major obstacles in the pathology of policy implementation.

The results showed that the lack of social marketing, the weakness of action plan, the lack of a national system of prevention, the lack of monitoring and evaluation, and finally, the weakness of intercultural cooperation are the most important barriers to the implementation of primary prevention policies of addiction.

Revision and reforming of policies and attention to the implementation of policies in the past has been considered as a way to improve the current state of addiction policy.