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Poverty is the cause of drug addiction.

That explains the rampant drug abuse in the wealthy?

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Nobody said poverty is the only cause of drug addiction period.

The point was that with homeless people, the poverty and homelessness tends to be what causes the drug addiction.

That’s actually the opposite from what I’ve heard. Drug addiction results in poverty. Plenty of examples of people who had problems with drugs or alcohol, lost jobs and became homeless.

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