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Abstract • This study revealed presence of sexual problems affecting addict’ marital life. So it is important to involve the addict’s wives in the plan of management of their husbands to interfere with psychiatric morbidity if present, to improve the outcome, and to teach them about the nature substance use disorder and how to deal with it. Finally, we can conclude that the spouse of substance users are experiencing burden related to the illness of their husbands, their children were suffering from domestic violence, which in turn affects their quality of life. So it is important to involve the addict’s wives in the plan of management of their husbands to interfere with psychiatric morbidity if present, to improve the outcome, and to teach them about the nature substance use disorder and how to deal with it. By the end of the study, we can come up with the following conclusion: There have been evidence that support the hypothesis of the study that the spouse of substance users are experiencing burden related to the illness of their husbands, and consequently the duration of the illness lengthens, the burden will increase. Therefore a negative impact on their life is expected affecting their quality of life and well-being which may be associated with psychiatric morbidity. |