Abstract: Objective To observe and study the clinical characteristics of pulm onary tuberculosis cases depend ing on heroin . Methods Analysed the general conditions and clinical characteristics of these patients who weretreated in Wuhan Tuberculosis Hospital and Wuhan 12th Hospital during past 5 years . Results All the cases in cluding 13 male and 2 fem ale accord with the diagnosisstandard of morphine taking .86.7 % ofthem are fro m 26 to38 years old and 60.0 % is new cases . Their conditions are rather serious . They have more co m plications and60.0 % of them have lung damage . The therapeutic com pliance is bad and the failure cure rate is 100.0 % . None ofthe m can insist on the treatment for 6 months and none of the 10 sputu m positive cases converses . Conclusion These cases should be co m pelled to give up drug taking w hen treated with Antituberculosis drugs .

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulm onary, Heroin dependence