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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
People say this a lot implying that the real reasons are rooted in social injustice, poverty, homelessness etc. and some of those factors contribute, for sure. But many of them have nothing to do with the above and they are just personal choices. Watch the new documentary by Cameron Crowe about David Crosby. He talks about it a lot. He had it all - money, sex, fame, comfort, friendship, yet, he lost it all to hard drugs. His reasons where - "it helps you forget real life for a moment". A guy who had a great life by most standards, wanted to forget it. That is a very powerful personal reason. How do you treat that? The reason his wife at the time turned to hard drugs and got addicted "she wanted to show me that a person can beat it". You can't treat personal reasons pushing people to get away from reality. This is utopian hope.
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I'm referring to mental health. Go down to a shelter and the vast majority of clients have some sort of mental disorder. Fix that, and by proxy you see the habitual homeless start to find housing, you see drug use decline.
Heck our economy sucks. You think working folks cut down on purchasing alcohol or cannabis? They probably buy it more. Why do they buy booze and weed? Well I'd say for some sort of relief from the worry in your head. Homeless folks can't afford a $50 case of beer but they can turn to a $5 crack rock.