Use of illicit drugs and social exclusion: state of knowledge in France

Since the end of the 1990s, poverty, precariousness, exclusion, integration or reintegration have been at the heart of all the social debates. Many surveys have been carried out with homeless populations, people living below the poverty line or the unemployed, with the particular objective of studying the interactions between their living conditions and their state of health. It is in this context that it seemed worthwhile to examine in particular the illicit drug use behaviours of destitute populations and, conversely, the degrees of poverty, precariousness or exclusion of drug users.