The cultural factors of return to addiction among the self-introduced addicts of the Andimeshk city

The conducting etiological researches on the addiction, for the design and implementation of preventive programs by experts of relevant organizations is inevitable. Therefore, this descriptive cross-sectional study was performed with the aim of ranking the cultural factors of  returning to drog addiction among self-introduced addicts by using a researcher-made questionnaire by random-class sampling method among 150 people from the statistical population, including: clients (self-introduced returning addicts), helpers and advisors, and  Clients' family members, in addiction treatment centers under the supervision of Andimeshk welfare in 2019. To analyze the data, were used descriptive statistics and SPSS software. In descriptive statistics, the demographic and demographic information of the sample was checked, and in inferential statistics, first the normality of the data was determined using the Kolmogorov Smirnov one-way test, and then using the Cochran chi-square test, the significance level of each of the components of operational cultural factors was determined and was measured. Among the 17 items of variable cultural causes, the encouragement from the user friends to reuse drugs and the spending leisure time with unhealthy entertainment, have most effect and the going to jail and the discrimination between children, have the lowest effect on return to addiction. The cultural factors effecting the return to drugs addiction can include the components of the encouragement from the user friends to reuse drugs, the spending leisure time with unhealthy entertainment, the labeling, failure to track related institutions, Not assigning a program to spend leisure time, Having positive beliefs in using drugs to relieve and treat diseases ,and  Lack of knowledge about the nature of new drugs