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Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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Introduction: Nowadays, drug abuse and addiction is a serious issue worldwide. There are many known risk factors for drug abuse and in any community some of these risk factors play a more important role in this regard. With respect to the lack of any native data in this issue in Kermanshah province, this study was conducted for determining the causative factors for tendency to drug use in the viewpoint of referrers to addiction treatment centers around this province in 2012.

Methods: this research was a descriptive-cross-sectional study. The population consisted of addicted people referred to addiction treatment centers of Kermanshah in 2012. The subjects were 768 clients who recruited using convenience sampling. Data was collected via interview and completing a questionnaire, these data entered to SPSS 21 software and analyzed using descriptive statistics.

Results: in this study 92.7% of participants were male. The mean age and onset age of drug use were 36.17 ± 11.43 and 24.88 ± 9.09 years respectively. opium was the most common abused drug (67.4%), and smoking was the most cited method for drug use (72.1%). the most important reasons for starting drug use reported by the participants were relationship to other addicted friends and relatives (54%), attending in night parties (35.7%), loneliness and lack of good friends (28.3%), interest to use drugs (24.3%), and curiosity about drugs (17.1%).

Conclusion: According to the findings, acquaintances with addicted friends and relatives, attending in illegal night parties, loneliness and the lack of good friends, interest to use the drugs, and curiosity about drugs were the main predisposing factors for drug use in our study. So, as a preventive measure about this health and socio cultural problem it is suggested that the necessary educational programs covering these issues will be offered to the public in educational and health centers.

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Received: 2016/01/17 | Accepted: 2016/01/17 | Published: 2016/01/17

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