I hate when people hand-wring about drug and mental health issues. Treatment for both is more effective if a person has a home, which makes absolute sense if you think about it at all. Why people would think you would have more success treating drug addiction and mental health while a person is struggling with the poverty and deprivation of homelessness is way the fuck beyond me.
Drug addiction is often considered to be a moral failing, so it follows that if you "reward" people for acting badly they'll just keep doing it. It's still mainstream addiction mythology that people need to reach "rock bottom" before they decide to change. There's a good Citations Needed episode that digs into this mindset
Why people would think you would have more success treating drug addiction and mental health while a person is struggling with the poverty and deprivation of homelessness is way the fuck beyond me.
They don't think that. They think of those people as entirely beyond help, and so we shouldn't bother trying
I hate when people hand-wring about drug and mental health issues. Treatment for both is more effective if a person has a home, which makes absolute sense if you think about it at all. Why people would think you would have more success treating drug addiction and mental health while a person is struggling with the poverty and deprivation of homelessness is way the fuck beyond me.
Drug addiction is often considered to be a moral failing, so it follows that if you "reward" people for acting badly they'll just keep doing it. It's still mainstream addiction mythology that people need to reach "rock bottom" before they decide to change. There's a good Citations Needed episode that digs into this mindset
They don't think that. They think of those people as entirely beyond help, and so we shouldn't bother trying