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0 pointsaidenn013y ago0 comments

correction: Nearly all chronic homeless have mental illness and/or substance abuse; the chronic homeless make up only about 1/8 of the homeless at any given time.

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run4yourlives13y ago

Unless you have a citation that says otherwise, anything I've seen seems to suggest that there is little difference in the high percentage of mentally ill/substance abusers between chronic/non-chronic homeless.

aidenn0OP13y ago

Just about every article I can find talking about substance abuse and mental illness in homeless specifically focuses on the chronic homeless so I inferred from that. A bit of googling turned up this non-scholarly article though that compares the overall rate of mental illness among homeless to that of the chronically homeless and found ~3x difference

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07...

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run4yourlives13y ago

aidenn0OP13y ago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07...

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