ABSTRACT
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. 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. 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%]. This study showed that participating in the meetings of Narcotics Anonymous increases the duration of the time of quit addiction