Californians often struggle with health, trauma, poverty before losing homes: research

The Hill ^ | 06/20/2023 | NICK ROBERTSON

[ChicagoConservative27]

Homeless Californians are often victims of violence and struggle with mental health and substance abuse issues before losing their homes, according to new research from the University of California San Francisco.

The study released Tuesday spoke with a representative sample of 3,200 homeless people in California, the largest number for a study since the 1990s, authors said. California is estimated to have over 170,000 homeless people, about one-third of all in the country.

Nearly two-thirds of California’s homeless struggle with severe mental health issues, the study found. More than a quarter had been hospitalized as a result. Another two-thirds also reported substance abuse issues including drug or alcohol addiction.

[ChicagoConservative27]

But I thought the rest the country needed to emulate California? (S)

[FlingWingFlyer]

Elections do have consequences.

[pepsionice]

Even if they don’t cite personal drug abuse....they go and mention one or both of the parents who were alcoholics/drug users, then they mention how they got placed within the family unit or some state situation....where they were abused. Just a fantastic number of people if you start going on the circumstances.

[dfwgator]

[Responsibility2nd]

This story calls for Boo Hoo Girl

 

 

[Responsibility2nd]

Homeless Californians are often victims of violence and struggle with mental health and substance abuse issues before losing their homes, according to new research from the University of California San Francisco.

 

Fixing it.... Homeless Californians are victims of STATE TAXES before losing their homes, according to new research from the University of California San Francisco.

[Mariner]

When will society admit they are simply Crazy People on Dope?

The only solution is involuntary commitment to the cookoos nest.

[SaveFerris]

The important thing is to keep voting in Democrats and expecting things to improve.

Sorry for any conservatives suffering under Democrats running their big cities - like pretty much everywhere in the U.S.A.

sigh

[PGR88]

Neo-marxism and post-modernism have consequences

The only safety net worth a damn is the family. Its been that way since the beginning of time

[PeterPrinciple]

Homeless Californians are often victims of violence and struggle with mental health and substance abuse issues before losing their homes,

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Well, give them a home and fix it. It is obvious, isn’t it?/s

[Opinionated Blowhard]

often . . . .struggle with mental health and substance abuse issues before losing their home

Back in the 1980s, if you said that most of the homeless were mentally ill or substance abusers, you were crucified. The party line back then was the homeless are just like you and me, but they fell on hard times due to Reagan's evil policies.

[GOPJ]

Odd how that primarily effects people in California... Guess those of us living in Florida are lucky we don’t have any kids in our State growing up in homes where one parent’s an alcoholic... /s

[varyouga]

Alcohol and drugs are often abused to self medicate when mental therapy is unavailable or inadequate. Countless people that are obviously mentally ill since childhood are ignored and never evaluated. We now have multiple generations of unchecked mentally ill that are ignored and walking the streets until they commit a crime bad enough to jail (where they meet even more mentally ill people and become worse).

Addicts will congregate among others with the same lifestyle and even travel for more drug/theft opportunities (usually to the largest cities).

I volunteer at local churches and rehab. NEVER met an addict that didn’t have mental issues and/or trauma that started their cycle of abuse. The key is these issues must be identified as early as possible before physical addiction and homelessness ruins them for life...

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Homeless Californians are often victims of the State of California, run by a super-majority of Democrats who “fix” things....

[Egon]

I’m in the wrong business. I need to start coming up with completely useless or obvious topics to “study” so I can receive millions in grant monies.

[pepsionice]

I watch a lot of interviews on YouTube of these people (probably over 150 of them). Common theme is that the parents came in the 1980s/1990s...part-atmosphere existed. Kids grew up in a broken situation, and got the drug/alcoholic habit either in their teens or 20’s.

I don’t think being friendly works with these people anymore. You’d have to be consequences-drive....force them into a fenced-in compound for two years with no drugs or booze for treatment.

[bobbo666]

Please! Homeless? BullS!

If mentally unwell, CaCaLand provides extensive aid. Get off yer butt and go get it. If a junkie, die inna gutter.

The only legit category of “homeless” out thisaway, and it is a vanishing small %age, are the ones there because some medical family emergency hit them.

All the rest are parasitic bums. The only worse folks are the parasites running NGO’s and skimming $$ while claiming to help the “homeless”. Study after study show that only a very small %age makes it way to the street. All the rest is laundered and skimmed.