ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the social position of the drug users in the some cities, providing both an objective and a subjective perspective. It analyses the responses of two samples of drug consumers to the questions on objective socio-demographic characteristics of respondents as well as on their subjective perspective of their own "well-being" within society. There is a common belief that drug users are more likely to represent socially excluded segments of societies. Marginalization studied in the context of use of illicit drugs was especially discovered with intravenous heroin users, who were more likely to belong to socially excluded segments of society. Compared to the marginalized drug users, the integrated users are clearly younger and constitute a more homogeneous group as the differences between cities are smaller. The distance between integrated and marginalized drug users in education is large in every city.
