Abbas Ghodrati Torbati, Faezeh Sahbaei, Seyed Jamaleddin Nabavi, Mohamad Zare,
Volume 23, Issue 3 (9-2013)
Abstract
Background: Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings are used to increase quit time of addict persons after the detoxification. Quit addiction program contains of 97% non-drug treatment and 3% drug treatment. The aim of this study was to compare participating and non-participating individuals continue Addiction Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
Materials and Methods: This descriptive-comparative study was performed on 300 individuals participated in the meetings of Narcotics Anonymous and non-participating provider refers to the Saman rehabilitation clinic, Mashhad, Iran. Simple random sampling was used to select addict persons. A questionnaire, including demographic information and the continuity of quit time, were used.
Results: The highest continuity quit time of addiction were in 6-12 months (38%) in participant of NA and 3-6 months (45%) in non-participant (p<0.002). and lowest in those participants leave continuity de rajlsat 24-36 months (4%) and non-participating 18-24 months (6/66%).
Conclusion: This study showed that participating in the meetings of Narcotics Anonymous increases the duration of the time of quit addiction.