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  • cricket97@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldThe third place
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    8 months ago

    It absolutely is a failing of the individual. It can still be a “disease” at the same time.

    A few of them may be addicts and we extrapolate it to the whole group.

    Oh please, most of them are. Drug addiction is the leading cause of prolonged homelessness, followed by mental illness.

    Often times the unhoused become addicts after they experience homelessness,

    And often times their addiction caused them to be homeless. I’m not sure what value there is in trying to prove exceptions when the general trends are clear as day.

    Society has failed them.

    I used to work at a homeless shelter when I was doing some community service work and I can tell you first hand most of them don’t want help. They don’t care. They just want drugs. They get offered treatment opportunities all the time but they refuse because they can’t get loaded.










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    A majority of the homeless people in my local library are drug addicts. They are not people simply down on their luck. And they will continue to be homeless until they stop taking drugs. As long as they are on drugs/drinking there is no way out. And they refuse treatment most of the time.



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    8 months ago

    by actually taking up the offers of drug treatment they are given. I used to work in a homeless shelter and you’d be blown away at how little they care about anything but getting high. They have resources tossed their way for free and they refuse them because they only care about continuing their life of debauchery and drugs.




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    8 months ago

    You’re putting all homeless into a box. Not all are homeless because they are addicts.

    Are we not allowed to make generalizations at all? I promise you if you open a homeless center in any major city you will find out very quick that psycho behavior comes with homeless people at scale. It’s a guarantee that you will have meth addicts ruin whatever infrastructure you provide them. It doesn’t matter that there are some good homeless people when you are almost guaranteed to face the bad ones.