IN AN EFFORT to gain more knowledge toward improvement of hospital treatment, a study was undertaken of the employment status of 100 narcotic drug addicts 1 year after their disicharge from the Public Health Service Hospital at Fort Worth, Tex. The study also included the relation of their posthospital employment to age, education, ethnic group, hospital vocational assignment, and their use of psychological help during hospitalization. The results of previous followup studies of narcotic addicts contributed little to improvement of hospital treatment procedures. The studies of Pescor (1), Diskind and Klonsky (,3), and unpublished data of J. A. O'Donnell, associate director, National Institute of Mental Health Addiction Research Center, indicated that more of the addicts discharged under compulsory supervision abstained from drugs than did those without such supervision. Several followup studies of narcotic addicts reported their employment status in addition to their addiction status. In a study in Great Britain, Clark followed 50 physicians and nurses who had been hospitalized for drug addiction (3). Thirty-three (66 percent) continued to work in their professions 2 to 12 years following hospital treatment, but some were interrupted by periods of readdiction; 13 (26 percent) had no gainful employment; and 4 (8 percent) retired or changed occupations. Duvall and associates (4) reported employment status 5 years after discharge of male patients discharged to New York City from the Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Ky. A stratified sample of 453 patients was chosen by disproportionate weighting from 11 groups of a population of 1,359 alddicts: 1,105 ma,les and 254 females. They reported employment status of employable males only. After adjustment for disproportionate sampling and disproportionality of employable males, the estimated percentage of all employable male dischargees engaged in full-time employment 5 years after discharge was 37 percent. Diskind and Klonsky (2) reported employment status of 50 former addict parolees from New York correctional institutions. These subjects were part of a group of 66 who had successfully completed a median period of 16 months under parole supervision. Before the followup study, an additional mean period of 2 years and 9 months elapsed subsequent to parole termination. Sufficient information could not be obtalined on 16 of the 66 subjects. Thirtyfive (70 percent) of the remaining 50 subjects were reported fully employed and 15 (30 percent) irregularly employed.