This study aims to identify the factors that motivate the use of drugs among diligent boys in street condition in the city of João Pessoa - PB; to characterize the work activity of jugglers and to relate the precocious work and the use of drugs with the future perspectives of these citizens. The research was developed through the territorialization, comment and unsystematic register and half-structuralized interviews, with analyzed data from the content's analysis of Bardin (1979). 06 citizens were interviewed, between 11 and 16 years old, all of the masculine sex. The drugs used by them were alcoholic beverages, cigarette, glue and marijuana. The reasons to use them were the group's imposition and the unfamiliarity of the real effect of drugs. We still verified that for the precocious workers there is the construction of future perspectives glimpsed through their professional insertion when adult, possible to be realized from the school.
Drugs; precocious work; boys in street condition