Human figure drawings of addicts using heroin (n = 27) or addicts using pills (n = 25) were examined in terms of which sex drawn first and which sex drawn larger. Out-patient addicts differed significantly from incarcerated addicts for sex drawn first but not from normals. The female figure was drawn larger than the male figure only by addicts using pills.
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