Marc Benioff, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of Salesforce, said Tuesdayto the San Francisco Chroniclethat the upcoming conference "may be the last" in the Bay Area city "if this Dreamforce is impacted by the current situation with homelessness and drug use." San Franc...
Homelessness and illicit drug use are two major social problems which commonly co-occur, with profound implications for the individuals affected. The relationship between homelessness and drug taking is complex, and homeless drug users (HDUs) frequently experience multiple and interrelated problems. ...
In doing this, we document the differential sources of knowledge and particular childhood experiences that launched these youth into coherent street careers. 展开 关键词: Drug use Homelessness Sex work DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2004.07.006 被引量: 145 ...
But many Californians will still remain unhoused. The best way to service this population is to move away from criminalizing and stigmatizing drug use. Recently, theSan Francisco Police Departmentarrested 450 individuals who used drugs and who were intoxicated in public. However, ...
Additionally, we examine the prevalence of selected drug and sexual risk, including exposure to a broad range of illegal substances, current use of illegal drugs, and prevalence of lifetime exposure to sex work. Finally, we use an event history analysis approach (time–event displays and paired...
Homelessness and drug use often overlap and the harms of substance use are exacerbated by homelessness. Responding to the twin problems of homelessness and substance use is an important aspect of strategies to end homelessness. The introduction and development of ten year plans to end homelessness...
We also show the prevalence and timing of selected high risk behaviours, including the onset of both drug use and sexual risk, with the overall goal of illuminating the role of homelessness in increasing risk for negative health outcomes among YMSM....
Homelessness and drug use: evidence from a community sample. Questions regarding the nature of the association between drug use and risk of homelessness remain unresolved and have important policy implications. To ad... TP Johnson,M Fendrich - 《American Journal of Preventive Medicine》 被引量: ...
These are the voices that governments, funders, policy makers and service providers must listen to if we want to make progress in improving the lives and brightening the futures of this under-‐served group of youth in our community. Susan Shepherd Manager, Toronto Drug Strategy Secretariat ...
Periods of homelessness place a person in a vulnerable position for the development of patterns of problematic substance use.This may be related to the peer-mediated nature of drug and alcohol initiation, or because homelessness acts as a stressor to which substance use is seen as a palliative...