The Study of Effective Factors in Kerman Province to Use Industrial and Psychotropic Drugs

Abstract

Addiction to drugs is a great social problem which not only has physical and psychological effects for addicted people, but also threatens the public health socially, politically, economically and culturally. If we consider the addiction as an unusual reliance and a necessity to use various compounds which change condition and quality of people, or if we believe in Bergeret, chairman of document center of addiction in France, who says: “Addiction is a situation of great dependence which relies on deep emotional preparedness of an individual”, we will be allowed to treat with dependence on psychotropic drugs as a kind of addiction. Basically, tendency and addiction to use psychotropic drugs is the worst kind of addiction and nowadays, unpleasant effects of such these materials on the body of human are distinguished more and more. Using psychotropic drugs has never been mentioned useful for the health of people. As, a great part of population of Islamic Republic of Iran is the youth, and the use of psychotropic drugs is spread among some of these young people in various regions of Iran, and such this problem – as a social effect – will threaten the youth who are an important element for economical, social and cultural development of the Country, the subject is a warning for social authorities of government because according to experts of World Health Organization, taking psychotropic drugs is the greatest factor which endangers social health and harms personal and social health and human interests. Prevention of a social problem and fighting with such a pest which endangers personal and social health requires an appropriate understanding and perception of the problem. The youth are potential and talented forces who are great capitals of our country. Prevention of addiction to psychotropic drugs among the youth and fighting with expansion of such this harmful addiction should be one of the activity areas of authorities. This paper considers the quality of this problem according to scientific methods due to significant development of these drugs among the youth. The paper also analyses the effectiveness of personal, social, family, religious, psychological and nervous factors on tendency of the youth to take psychotropic drugs, and helps cultural authorities and social planners to perform preventive policies to avoid related problems and to control effective factors which stimulate the youth toward psychotropic drugs.