Substance Abuse

Objective: Addiction is a physical-mental illness that, due to its progressive nature in all aspects of life, endangers the health of the individual, family and society. In order to prevent and resolve this destructive phenomenon, it is necessary to provide and implement comprehensive and appropriate programs in the rural area. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to determine the predictors of substance abuse of rural immigrant. Method: The statistical population included all addicted prisoners who migrated from rural to urban areas. Using cluster sampling method, 360 people were selected as the study sample. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used to analyze data. Result:The results showed that only the quality of life component can predict the drug abuse of migrant rural men and women, while the components of access to facilities, rural management performance, and individual participation, as well as marital status, age and education cannot predict their substance abuse (p <0.05). Conclusions: According to the results of the present study, since the quality of life is a predictor of substance abuse in migrant villagers, and this problem, in fact, indicates the basic infrastructural problems in preventing the migration of villagers and their substances abuse, related planning and policies in the field of social health are suggested in this regard.

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of family empowerment with socio-emotional learning on psychological trauma and emotional expression in adolescents with parents with substance abuse. The method of the present study was a quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control and follow-up group. 30 of them were purposefully selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Research data were collected using the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) by Lovibond & Lovibond (1995) and the King & Emmons (EEQ) Emotional Expression Questionnaire (1990) and analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance. Were analyzed. The results of the present study showed that family empowerment on emotional expression and depression, anxiety and stress of adolescents with dependent parents was effective (P <0.01) and this effectiveness is stable in quarterly follow-up (P <0.01). According to the results of the present study, it can be concluded that family empowerment learning program is one of the effective treatments for psychological trauma and emotional expression of adolescents