Abstract:
The study aimed to identify the personal, family, societal, and legal factors leading to drug
addiction from the viewpoint of youth in Jordan, and also aimed at uncovering statistically
significant differences between the study sample estimates towards the factors leading to drug
addiction by different variables (educational level, nature of work , And age). To achieve its
objectives, the study used the method of the social survey to collect data by applying the
questionnaire tool to a random sample consisting of (57) young men (16-24 years), and the study
used some statistical methods to analyze the data.
The results of the study showed that personal factors are one of the most important factors
leading to drug addiction, which is their suffering from diseases, the availability of long free time
for them, their mixtures with bad companions and owners of criminal record, their feeling of
alienation and ostracism by the family and society, and the factors that came second in terms of
The relative importance is related to the family environment, which is represented in housing the
families of addicts within neglected slums, and came in the third arrangement, societal factors,
the most important of which are addicts feeling anxious about the economic situation in society,
and the difficulty in obtaining work, and came Factors related to the environment and legal order
in the latter, which was the ease of addicts get prescription to buy drugs at any time, doctors and
indulgence in narcotic drugs exchange |
