الفهرس 
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Abstract
Background: Nowadays, the addiction to the drugs is considered one of the most important problems related to the general health in societies. Many people suffer from substance-related disorders during their lives and a lot of addicted people will die due to direct and indirect effect of drug use.
Objectives: Identify factors that predict good treatment outcome (early abstinence), identify factors that predict poor treatment outcome.
Patients and Methods: This is an observational, cross sectional, prospective and comparative study investigating early treatment outcome (3-month treatment outcome) of heroin addiction in those admitted to Al- Ma’amoura inpatient addiction treatment unit from the first of January 2018 to the first of June 2018 i.e. a 6 months duration and studying the predictors of relapse.
Results: 60% of cases achieved abstinence (Good treatment outcome) after 3month follow up while 40% of cases relapsed (Poor treatment outcome). Comparison between intial OTI results and follow up OTI results among two groups revealed that group A (abstinenced) achieve significant improvement in all aspect including other drug use, HRBS, social problems, criminality, general health, psychological adjustment With marked deterioration of group B in more than one aspect. Comparison between both groups showed no significant differences in age, gender, education, or employment status. group A (Mean ± SD=31.87 ± 5.47) was relatively younger than group B (Mean ± SD=33.83 ± 6.50) this difference is statistically insignificant p =0.107. Married cases were found to be more in group B (42.5%) comparing to (38.3%) of group A.
Conclusion: from the previous data we concluded that relapse rates detected for opiate dependent subjects in the first 3 months after discharge are high.