Investigating the Causes of Youth Addiction to Drugs: A Case Study of Bamyan Center in 2024
Corresponding Author(s) : Mohammadullah Mutamed
Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025): April
Abstract
The present study, which was conducted to investigate the causes of youth turning to drugs in the center of Bamyan province, has sub-objectives such as investigating individual, interpersonal-environmental, and social causes. It is applied from an objective perspective, descriptive from the perspective of the method, and interpretive from the perspective of qualitative problem-solving. The data collection method was through semi-structured interviews in which 16 men were interviewed, including 13 people with an addiction, one doctor from the aforementioned hospital, and a psychology professor at Bamyan University who taught the psychology of drug addiction at the university. The findings of this study showed that individual factors such as pride, fatigue relief, curiosity, pleasure, relief of severe physical pain, lack of emotion, pessimism, stress, mental disorders, positive attitude towards drugs, weak religious beliefs and values, lack of sufficient awareness about the harms of drugs, and interpersonal-environmental factors such as the availability of drugs, peers, having bad friends, school, room, and place of residence, inappropriate role models in personal life, falling in love, and leisure time. Social factors such as immigration, arrogant politics, family, addiction of family members, poverty, unemployment, hard work, lack of sports and recreational facilities, lack of service facilities, social disorder and insecurity, and lack of law enforcement played a role in turning young people to drugs. Therefore, based on the study's findings, it is recommended that the authorities take the necessary measures to address these issues.
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- Abdolmaleki, S, Farid, Habibi Kalibar, R, Hashemi, A. (2016). Investigating the relationship between family emotional climate and emotional control with addiction tendency. Family Studies, 12(4), 649-662. Link
- Ahdi, M. (2022). Social factors affecting addiction to industrial drugs (case study: Zanjan city). Legal Studies 49(21), 319-344. https://doi.org/10.48300/jlr.2022.145214
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- Amin, A, Mojard, A, Jamali, S, & Sarban, M. T. (2009).The effect of parental addiction on children's behavior. Tolooebehdasht, Third National Congress of High-Risk Behaviors, 31-31. Link
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- Asadi, S. H. (2003). Drug use from the perspective of criminal law, Islamic jurisprudence, and custom. Judicial Law, (42), 0-0. Link
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Abdolmaleki, S, Farid, Habibi Kalibar, R, Hashemi, A. (2016). Investigating the relationship between family emotional climate and emotional control with addiction tendency. Family Studies, 12(4), 649-662. Link
Ahdi, M. (2022). Social factors affecting addiction to industrial drugs (case study: Zanjan city). Legal Studies 49(21), 319-344. https://doi.org/10.48300/jlr.2022.145214
Ahmadi, M. Y. (2023). Investigating the harms of drugs from the perspective of Islam, the first scientific research conference (Causes, consequences, and methods of drug treatment from the perspective of Islam, psychology and sociology) Venue: Bamyan University, Afghanistan.
Akbari, R. (2023). Investigating the causes and consequences of drugs from the sociology perspective in Bamyan, the first scientific research conference (Causes, consequences and methods of drug treatment from the perspective of Islam, psychology, and sociology) Venue: Bamyan University, Afghanistan.
Amin, A, Mojard, A, Jamali, S, & Sarban, M. T. (2009).The effect of parental addiction on children's behavior. Tolooebehdasht, Third National Congress of High-Risk Behaviors, 31-31. Link
Amirpour, M, & Ghorbani, M. (2013). Causes of changing drug use patterns from low risk to high risk. Social Welfare, 13(48), 201-228. Link
Arqabai, S & Mohammadipour. (2018). The role of family emotional climate in the tendency to use drugs: examining the mediating role of negative emotion. Quarterly Journal of Addiction Studies 12(45), 53-70. Link
Asadi, S. H. (2003). Drug use from the perspective of criminal law, Islamic jurisprudence, and custom. Judicial Law, (42), 0-0. Link
Bababai, & Najafi Asl. (2018). Study of the causes of rural youth's tendency to drug abuse (Study of villages in Delfan County, Lorestan Province). Iranian Journal of Social Studies, Special Rural Sociology, 12(1). 5-28. Link
Bagheri, Masoumeh, Nabavi, Seyed Abdul Hossein, Moltafat, Hossein, and Naghipour, Fatemeh. (2010). Study of social factors affecting the phenomenon of addiction in the city of Ahvaz. Applied Sociology (Research Journal of Humanities, University of Isfahan), 38 (1). 119-136. SID. Link
Ebrahimi, S. M, & Fattahi, M. (2004). Pathology of women's addiction. (113), 3-8. Link
Mahdavi, N, Farashi, H, & Mahdavi Nasr, M. (2011). Investigating the causes and factors of youth and adolescents' tendency to use new drugs in Khorramabad city. Silent Invasion Conference. Link
Salehabadi, E, & Salimi Amanabad, M. (2012). Investigating the relationship between youth lifestyle and tendency to use industrial drugs in Shirvan city. SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF YOUTH, 3(6), 57-70. Link
Stoudeh, H. (2010). Social pathology (sociology of deviations), Best Wickham Press, 3rd edition, Tehran: Avae Noor Publications.
Tayebi, Z. (2021). Addiction and adolescents. Conference on Management and Humanities Research in Iran, 10(10), 533-542. Link
Zare, Shahabadi, & Firouzi. (2022). Social factors affecting drug addiction among young people in Kabul. Social Sciences of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 19(1), 134-109. Link