Sociological Analysis of Tendency Towards Addiction and its Impact on Social Health

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the social factors affecting addiction and to provide a sociological analysis of drug addiction and finally to investigate the effect of addiction on social health.

The method used in this research is a survey method and due to the comparative nature of the research, it is of a comparative causal type. In order to achieve the goal of the research, first, a questionnaire including the measurement of personal characteristics, the level of religiosity, the level of feeling of anomie, the level of connection with society, economic and social base, family opportunities and the level of communication with delinquent friends, as variables affecting addiction. And it was completed through interviews with 63 drug users who visited the clinic and 89 students of Payam Noor Gonbad (non-users). Then, relying on the research done on social health in Iran and identifying its components, an analysis of the impact of addiction on social health was tried. Sampling method of full coverage consumer group and nonconsumer group sample is available.

According to the results, 70% of drug users are between 20 and 25 years old. 80% of users have accepted the suggestion of drug use from their friends and 86.5% of non-users believe that users should be avoided. Also, the results of the t test showed that there is a statistically significant difference between consumers and non-consumers in terms of the investigated variables. Also, the logistic regression analysis, which reveals the contribution of each variable in the explanation of the dependent variable, showed that according to the socio-economic base variable, the amount of communication with delinquent friends and the amount of feeling of anomie had the largest contribution in the explanation of the dependent variable.

Examining the concept of social health and its components also showed that the problem of addiction actually challenges various components of social health such as the absence of poverty, absence of violence, social justice, social security, life satisfaction, social participation, social cohesion and social acceptance. confronts in such a way that it is possible to improve the status and index of social health in the society by solving the problem of addiction as a problem.