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This study compares interpersonal behavior patterns of drug abuse patients with their non-drug-using counterparts. The Interpersonal System developed in 1956 by T. Leary was used in comparing eighty multi-drug-habituated patients at the Texas Research Institute's Drug Abuse Clinic with a population of outpatients matched for age and sex. The drug abusers emerged as significantly more hostile and critical, idealizing the socially undesirable behaviors of distrust and nonconformity and revealing a significant degree of self-deception. Self-perceptions of the two groups were similar and reflected a lack of confidence in their own ability to achieve success, but their reactions to these feelings were markedly different. Both groups perceived their parents as strong, self-reliant, and behaving in a socially desirable manner, although mothers of drug abusers were described as lacking warmth and nurturant behaviors.