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  • cricket97@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldThe third place
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    9 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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    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.








  • No where in either of those links you posted exposes it as an “astroturfing campaign”. While I’m sure some people are posting these videos with political motives in mind, does it occur to you that maybe locals are fed up with it? People are watching their cities turn to shit with open air drug markets that many thought were a thing of the past. Just because some retard on twitter with an agenda reposts the video doesn’t mean that it’s an “Astroturfing campaign” lol.