evaluation of discovery and understanding of the conditions and backgrounds addiction treatment and recovery among members of narcotics anonymous forum

iran region narcotics anonymous established in 1994. so far most of the researches done in this field are comparative and quantitative and there isn’t any remarkable research on the way it works, so this research is to study the matter from qualitative point of view.this is a ground theory research in kerman   region of narcotics anonymous and its purpose is to find out the conditions of long time remedy. for this purpose we attended four active communities in kerman 22 people were interviewed face to face one hour and half. after analyzing the interviews we found that, since in this method remedy is public and is performed within a group, region of narcotics anonymous is one of the most successful methods in this case.here each member receives hope and sympathy from their teammates that improves the group  and in  this  process each member refines his  identity in which there is no narcotic and it result in long  time  remedy. in the end it is concluded that it is so difficult to cure narcotics addiction individually and it’s the most  profitable to work  within a group or community.