Societal Factors Affecting Industrial drugs Addiction (Case Study: Zanjan City)

Drug addiction is a social phenomenon which depends upon various factors resulting from collective, environmental life and the limitations of social structure. This study investigates the reasons of industrial drug addiction in Zanjan from the perspective of criminology.The methodology is causal-comparativeand the population includes the addicts in the Navay-e-Aramesh, Baharan, Toloo-e-Rahaei camps and Mehr addiction counseling center. The sample includes 100 subjects of those available in these camps selected through simple sampling. Pearson, spearman statistical tests and stepwise multiple regression were implemented with SPSS to analyze the data. Based on the findings of this study, the respondents are mostly aged 20-30, their marital status is chiefly unmarried, their education is middle-school certification or diploma; their father's education is mainly elementary or illiterate, their consumption is largely crystal and heroine, their first consumption's age is 13-18, and friends have a large influence in their addiction. The results show that there is a significant relationship among social control, social learning, failure and addiction to theindustrial drugs. According to the regression analysis, the most effective factor on this problem one are respectively social learning.The results of this study indicate that social and environmental factors on addiction toindustrial drugs are effective and outcome of this study, are consistent with Cohen's theories, Sutherland and Hirschi.