Drug use, abuse and its problems are circumstances that are very common among the homeless individuals on the streets— why is this?
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Drug use, abuse and its problems are circumstances that are very common among the homeless individuals on the streets— why is this?
A very large percentage of unsheltered people are addicted to drugs. The stereotype is that people become homeless because of drug use. This may be true in some cases, but people who are housed are more likely to be able to successfully access resources and services to help control their substance use. Most people who become homeless because of drug use are already unstably housed or disconnected from their families and social support systems or are already in such poverty that options for treatment do not exist. However, even more likely is that people will become drug dependent after they become homeless. Social structures on the street are more tolerant of drug and alcohol use than most housed situations. People lose the connections to friends and family which would otherwise help them to abstain or control their use. People who become homeless because of other factors such as mental illness are more likely to self-medicate using drugs.
A lot seem to be wrong with your question, what made you think only homeless people are involved with drugs? The same way people with shelter use drugs is the same fashion unsheltered people do. But of course, they’re easily tagged because they have no home. Even though there is a large percentage of homeless people that do indulge in drinking and doing drugs, there’s also another good percentage that don’t. Some started getting high because of all of the pressure they were under and couldn’t find no other way to cope at the time.