Social and Organizational Strategies to Reduce and Prevent Youth Tendency to Drugs Use (Case Study, Dehaghan County)

Received date: 11 February, 2020 Review date: 27 May 2020 Accepted date:15 July 2020 Abstract It has been tried in this research to investigate the social and organizational strategies of reducing and preventing youth tendency to drugs. The research methodology is survey. Information collection tool is questionnaire. Various theories such as: emotional model, educational model, immunization model, and especially social control have been used in the theoretical framework. Approximately 42.7% of 24234 population (15 years and above) in Dehaghan County are drug addicts. The number of sample was obtained 470 people based on Cochran formula (216 addicts and 254 nonaddicts were selected among the two groups as sample).According to figures obtained from the t-test variables: improvement of skills of familial and social life (and t = 29.21), treatment and interaction with addicts (and t = 23.24), increase of self-esteem and hope in youth (and t = 20.80), more supervision of family on the children (and t = 25.96), restricting the purchase and sale of drugs (and t = 14.69), more cooperation and convergence of the organizations related to reduction of drug addiction (and t = 7.26) and all values of mean are significant at 0.0001 level. They all have an effect on the prevention and reduction of drug addiction.