A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Drug Addiction Treatment Methods Used at the Drug Addiction Treatment Center of Jahrom in 2014

In recent years, a lot of efforts have been made toward developing new methods for treating drug addicts. The present study aims to compare the effectiveness of the drug addiction treatment methods used for the addicts at the drug addiction treatment center of Jahrom, Iran in 2014. The present study is a retrospective cohort study whose population consisted of all the individuals who were undergoing treatment at the medical center of MMT in Jahrom. Sampling of the files of the entire patients (150) was based on the census method. The researchers studied each treatment group separately. The data collected from the patients’ files were included their personal and medical information and level of improvement. The results of the patients’ treatment plans (MMT, BMT, and opium tincture) were collected, compared and analyzed. For the statistical analysis of the data, the researchers used descriptive indexes (frequency and percentage), the chi-square test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and SPSS v. 24. Based on the collected data, the effectiveness of the treatments was as follows: weak (30%) in 6.0% of the BMT cases and 12.0% of MMT cases; moderate (50%) in 72.0% of the BMT cases and 27.8% of MMT cases; and satisfactory (60%) and above in 22.0% of the BMT cases and 60.3% of MMT cases, all of which values were statistically significant. The results of the study show that using methadone is a more effective method for treating drug abuse compared to other treatments.