• Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      It absolutely happens both ways.

      People don’t only get into drugs because they’re already homeless.

      • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        Yes. Except before homelessness, the wealthy consume drugs at far higher rates than poor people. A wealthy person has a drug habit and can just ride through it without losing housing. If you take a homeless drug addict and give them a billion dollars, they would just be another billionaire with a ketamine habit. This is why it’s absurd and abusive to demand people get clean before you provide them housing.

    • Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca
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      7 hours ago

      Well I have a middle class family member who had their life totally set out for them who then has abused drugs and alcohol and are in the slow process of losing everyone around them and being asked to leave their family home with wife and kids due to the abuse and defiance that they have any problems. They will find themselves homeless soon and still an addict.

      I don’t know if these circumstances are set one way or the other. It’s always sad because help has been offered and given for a decade.

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      1 day ago

      I don’t think that’s always true. Some people develop a drug addiction and then that leads to homelessness. Spend increasing amounts of time and money on drugs instead of life needs, and then they’re broke jobless and out of options.

      Someone who’s homeless may use drugs and develop an addiction, too. But the order of events isn’t fixed. I don’t know how common either order is.

      • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Wealthy people use drugs at far higher rates than poor people. Drugs are expensive after all. The difference is that when you’re poor, drug use makes you homeless.

        Also, I sure as hell would want to be high 24/7 if I had to sleep on the sidewalk.