| چکیده انگلیسی مقاله |
Addiction or drug abuse is a social phenomenon which has caused a lot of problems for many communities, and nowadays the abundant statistics regarding drug abuse and chemical psychedelic substances are a proof for this claim. Therefore, it would not be irrelevant to argue that drug abuse has severely threatened many aspects of the human being’s life. Cases like reduction of the age of drugs’ use, hazardous diseases such as AIDS, introduction of industrial and synthetic drugs (ecstasy, shisheh, …) and popularity of smoking cigarettes and opium on the part of youth, all together confirm the issue .In addition, the growth of drugs abuse in Iran, especially over the last few years have led to several problems for our society. The phenomenon not only threatens physical health of people, but also challenges cultural values of the society including family, trust, integration, social contribution ,….The youth who are severely prone to drugs, mainly live in satellite towns near megacities. Tehran is right close to one of the densest megacities of the country. Based on the comments of the officials, Islamshahr with population density of 2470 persons per kilometer is among the cities who receive immigrants. It has a population of 800000, and has a rather young population. Addiction in the town is one of the most important probable dangers for the youth. With respect to the demographic characteristics of the town, addiction has been promulgated among the youth. Therefore, the current research aims at ana-lyzing the social factors impacting the increase of addiction in Islamshahr, to prevent the youth from getting addict, and identifying the existing shortages. The main question in the research is:” what are the factors that can contribute to the tendency of the youth toward drug abuse?” Social control approach is used to answer the question through Cockran sampling and the information available at Islamshahr treatment center. N=100 including all the addict youth, ranging from 18 to 29 whose record existed in the center, and another group including 100 ordinary youth, ranging from 18 to 29 selected through random sampling. The required data collected through using questionnaire. Results of the research indicated that there is significant relationship between youths’ levels of fondness, commitment, contribution and belief on one hand and their addiction on the other. |