From my experience and my moms experience doing drug treatment that vast majority of people turn to drugs because of trauma, not because they’re struggling financially. A ton of drug addicts actually had really stable lives before they wrecked it over drugs, so getting that back isn’t the simple answer. Many people get out of treatment, get stable lives, and turn back.
That said offering more of them stable lives and mental health care is definitely a good start.
I don’t know the numbers or anything, but I know there are some people who became drug addicts more or less because they became homeless, not the other way around.
Yeah trauma can really fuck with people regardless of their socio-economic position. Although obviously people higher up the ladder have more resources to try and get help dealing with it. It’s tough.
What if they want to shoot up, like, poison?
Unfortunately when you go back just a few hundred years housing becomes nearly free, and food becomes the thing that not everybody gets to have. Dying of starvation was the stick society used to get you to work for most of history. Most people spent nearly 100% of what they earned on food (which is why most/many of them were paid literally in food).
Your ancestors and mine were too worried about not starving to death to worry too much about having a roof over their head. Partly because the roof they’d built by hand themselves and it leaked like a MF. The land itself (and crucially the food it produced) belonged to some lord, just like they themselves did.
Saw this on reddit. I have a feeling their ramping up their anti-homeless shit in red states because of Trumps rhetoric.
Doesn’t work that way. Government provides the product.
Vancouver does this.
The vast majority of heroin overdoses are the result of wildly fluctuating product strength historically… fentanyl is just that taken to an extreme level. Imagine what would happen if the anesthesiologist had to guess how powerful the meds he used to put you to sleep for surgery were? A lot of people would die.
Prohibition is what’s killing people, not drugs. Being a drug user is a problem, but it should be a manageable one. The state makes it much more hazardous.
Also stuff like meth and weird designer chemical compounds would have no market if the drugs they are inferior substitutes for were available. Nobody who has access to coke does meth. Nobody who has access to mdma/lsd/psylocibin does lab chemicals. Nobody with access to cannabis is trying to smoke synthetic cannabis.
Yes, neither slaves nor serfs had to pay a lot for housing.
A few hundred years ago there was a people who seemed to have a pretty good handle on communal property and housing. But we genocided them because they were savages.
Don’t do that. Idealizing the first nations is a form of racism in and of itself. Some of them were good, and some of them sucked. They were just people.
Its a movement by homeless mothers who squat vacant homes. But it could probably go in both.
“She said it costs, on average, $55,000 annually for social and health services for one homeless individual. According to study data, the project saved the shelter system approximately $8,100 per person for a total of roughly $405,000 over one year for all 50.”
I mean that’s cool and all, but it only stuck with her because it looks like an Among Us character
I can’t reply as I want to, because it’s too emotionally hard.
But basically he sounds similar to what an old friend of mine went through when he gave up on the life he hated, became homeless and refused any and all attempts to help him by friends and social services. It was a horrible experience for everyone who loved him.
His brain/mind may well be broken though, which is why he doesn’t care if he’s in the sun.
Yes, because he’s not thinking straight they will generally know that the sun is bad for them but at the same time his body will be ice cold at times during the heat because of the lack of exercise & proper food & his general health.
If he sits out of the heat constantly he may contract Pneumonia
Zara, with love, your financial/social status are pretty damn stable. And yes we should all be grateful that we aren’t in other less fortunate people’s shoes. There but for the grace of god go I might be the least toxic thing I absorbed from the culture I was raised around.
