Investigating the Effect of Life Skills in Reduction of Opium Drug Tendency Among the Students

The research aiming to consider the effect of life skill education on highschool students tendency to  opium drugs, pursues to find a respond to following question: are life skills education and its  components (such as self-knowledge, empathy skill, effective relationship, interpersonal skill,  proactive and criticism thought, anti-excitement skill, anti-stress skill, brain storming, decision skill)  effective? The persent research is as applied. In the research , semi-experimental method and pre - post-test design have been used with control group and stochastic arrangement in the unique  exprements. Statistic community of this research is 170 male students of highschools in regions 1 and  4 of Tehran in the age ranged from 14 through 17 in 2011-2012 whom are controlled in gender, age  and qrade. Sampling method in the research is random and multi-phase that 100 students were selected  stochastically.The researcher-made tool of Information gathering is for drug tendency and other questionnaire is  about life skill. The confidence and validation of questioniare were measured using korenbach alfa test  and it was shown that the questionaire has a high validity. To analyse the data in the present research,  descriptive and argumental statistic methods were used. In the analytical section the variance analysis  method applied to arswer the questions using spss software, and final results showed that life skill  education has a high effect on reduction of adolescents tendency to drugs so as the difference between  control and test groups is meaningful statistically.