While vulnerable young people made up only 28 per cent of a study from the Crime and Justice Survey 2003, people aged 10 to 24 accounted for almost two-thirds of class A drug users.
Vulnerable groups identified were those who have been in care or homeless, truants, those excluded from school and serious or frequent offenders.
The study found that five per cent of non-vulnerable young people used drugs frequently in the previous year, which rose to a quarter among those in vulnerable groups. And nearly two out of five young people in more than one vulnerable group were classed as frequent users in the last year.
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