Coping Strategies and Quality of life in Drug Addicts

Abstract

Substance abuse has disastrous effects on human lives.  Quality of life depends upon the coping strategies in the patients of substance use disorder. If the coping strategies are higher than quality of life in drug addicts are higher. So the drug addicts of big cities may be able to use more coping strategies to deal with their addiction as compare to those addicts who live in small cities. The level of coping strategies is high among drug addicts of big cities because they can avail more opportunities to deal with their addiction by approaching addiction centres, NGOs, professionals and experts, hospitals etc. This article explores the significant positive relationship between coping strategies and quality of life. Further to examine the impact of coping strategies on quality of life in drug addicts. The sample of 60 male drug addicts was selected from Sahiwal and Lahore. Participant’s age range was 25-44 years.  In this research, non non-probability purposive convenient sampling technique was used for the selection of research sample. Correlation research design was used in this study. Finding highlightst a significant positive relationship was present between coping strategies and quality of life in drug addicts. Moreover, drug addicts of Lahore have high level of coping strategies than the drug addicts of Sahiwal. Additionally, drug addicts of Lahore also have high level of quality of life than drug addicts of Sahiwal. It was concluded that there was a significant relationship between coping strategies and quality of life in drug addicts. And a significant difference regarding coping strategies and quality of life was present in drug addicts of Lahore and Sahiwal

Key words:.  Addiction, Drug addiction, Quality of life, Coping strategies.