Introduction:The aims of this study  were to compare the cognitive emotion regulation and Problem-Solving Strategies in patients with substance abuse and normal individuals.

 Method: This was a causal-comparative (ex post facto) research that evaluated  using cognitive emotion regulation  and Problem-Solving Strategies questionnaires. patients (n=30 ) and normal subjects (n=30) selected with available sampling method.  Data analysis was performed using independent t-test and descriptive indicators.

Results: these results showed that drug-dependent individuals had poorer cognitive emotion regulation and  Problem solving strategies  than normal subjects.

Conclusions: substance abuse individuals have shown deficits in cognitive emotion regulation and efficient Problem-Solving Strategies while this deficits have not seen in group normal individuals.