TheCalifornia Statewide Studyalso conducted interviews with more than 300 homeless adults, exploring their daily life, including drug use. That work, along with otherresearch, finds that individuals frequently use methamphetamine to help them stay awake at night to protect themselves and ...
Data were collected using a community based, targeted sampling approach and may not be formally representative of the YMSM population. Differences in the intervals between the onset of negative behaviours are in some cases modest. For example, the onset of both drug abuse and sex work occur in...
Even so, the state of California is trying to tackle mental health and substance abuse by implementingCare Courts, to push those in need off the streets and into treatment. Karen Bass This is a controversial opinion. I don't think it's okay to be profoundly mentally ill, walking...
Homelessness and substance use disorder In the 1980s, homelessness reached a severe level and has become a major social and public health issue. Each day, homeless individuals grapple with a myriad of difficulties, such as lack of employment, housing, and food. For many, substance abuse can ...
Drug abuse can become a problem when the person tries to find a way to cope with the pain and difficulties of life on the streets. This results in a downward spiral which pushes the person deeper and deeper into the depths of poverty and isolation. The impact also extends beyond the ...
In 1989 through 1990, we conducted a cross-section survey of 1437 homeless adults in northern California (98% response rate). Prevalences of alcohol abuse, illegal drug use, and psychiatric hospitalization when adults first became homeless were 15% to 33% lower than prevalence following homeless...
While slightly over 10% of the US population lives in California, over 25% of the nation’s homeless reside in the Golden State, and nowhere is that statistic more visible than in the City of Los Angeles (Howle, 2018). Quantitative data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAH...
Democrats outnumber Republicans by a staggering 2-to-1 in California, and the borderline vote "does mean that some folks who normally would vote for Democrats, or maybe did on the same ballot, are voting against this," Nalder said.
Homeless Men and Women: Differential Associations Among Substance Abuse, Psychosocial Factors, and Severity of Homelessness Latent variable multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses assessed gender differences in relationships among drug and alcohol use, measures indicating severity of homelessness, criminal ...
Compared with nonhomeless persons, homeless persons with TB had a higher prevalence of substance use (54% alcohol abuse, 29.5% noninjected drug use, and 14% injected drug use), and 34% of those tested had coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus. Compared with nonhomeless persons, TB ...