what is the current percentage of homeless people who have a drug addiction?
Question by xxxdanceprincessxxx: what is the current percentage of homeless people who have a drug addiction?
i cant seem to find the percentage of people in 2009 who are homeless and who have some kind of drug or alcohol addiction…
im trying to back up a statement that says that most homeless people are struggling with a drug/ alcohol addiction but i need exact numbers and a source would be nice.
You can’t use the word most. I was homeless for over a year. You have a large combination of people, and why they are homeless. I feel many are mentally ill. I came across many of those than anything else. They get released from the state hospital with no place to go… I need not say more.
I think the question you should be asking is: “Did the drug addiction lead to the homelessness or; Did the homelessness lead to the drug/alcohol addiction? Here is your source. And Please people on Y/A; Learn how to use Google search.
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=main.doiLanding&uid=1992-09475-001
Here’s one more
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/homelessness/
It’s really hard to get an exact number when dealing with the homeless because a lot of them people either forgot or stopped caring about them so their invisible to the world.
This is the best I could find:
38% report alcohol use problems
26% report other drug use problems
39% report some form of mental health problems (20-25% meet criteria for serious mental illness)
66% report either substance use and/or mental health problems
3% report having HIV/AIDS
26% report acute health problems other than HIV/AIDS such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, or sexually transmitted diseases
46% report chronic health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or cancer
Best of luck.
Kevin
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