The study of Effective Factors on Addiction Phenomenon in the City of Ahwaz

AbstractThe aim of this article is to study the social effective factors on addiction phenomenon, this researchis a case study in nature. The population of study consisted 135 self- directing addicts from the improvementcenters affiliated by Ahwaz welfare center (behzisti). Thus, dependent variable in this research consists fourelements; type of opium, quantity , times and method of consumption. Thus, in this research we study therelationship between independent variables ( socio – economic status, age, marital status, relativedeprivation, isolation , normlessness, social association with addicted friends) and addiction intensity asdependent variable.Findings showed a significant and inverse relation between socio-economic status and addiction intensity(dependent variable). Also result indicated that, there is a meaningful relation between normlessness,isolation, social association with addicted friends and the dependent variable (addiction intensity). But resultshowed that, there is no significant relationship between variables such as age, marital status and relativedeprivation with addiction intensity