ABSTRACT

Background and Objective: Nowadays, addiction is addressed as one of the most important and challenging issues. Studies show 75% of addicts experience addiction relapse. So recognizing addiction relapse reasons is very important.  The aim of this study was determine and compare the socicdemographical factors of people in first and second quitting of drug addiction.

Methods: In this descriptive- correlationd study, after calculating sample size according to related studies, 100 full documents of a rehabilitation center of welfare organization were randomly selected with scientific calculator, and analyzed confidentially. The data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS V14.

Results: The results showed that 63% of the study cases had experienced at least one attempt to quit drug use. In this group the rate of singles (p< 0.014), alcoholics (p<0.000) and smokers (p<0.05) were significantly high. People who have used various drugs had experienced more quitting (p<0.04). The kind of motivation to quit was the reason for relapse. 

Conclusion: Addiction rehabilitation should be done according to background factors.  The study results indicated that among investigated people, intention, marital status, smoking, alcoholism and kind of drugs rank as the most important factors in the relapse of opium addiction. In other words, family is a positive factor but smoking and alcoholism are negative factors in addiction rehabilitation. These findings could help the authorities to control the issue.

Keywords: Addiction, First quit, Relapse, Sociodemographical Factor