As I was reading your reply I was thinking drug addicts. Seeing those homeless people videos from LA or Seattle it appears most of the homeless in those areas are drug addicts
Drug addicts are generally not just drug addicts. They're addicts 'cause of some underlying condition - like mental illness.
Unfortunately, in the 80s, the government stopped accepting drug addiction as a mental illness. Before that, you could even get disability/welfare for being an addict.
This was not a bad thing, as you can see by the massive increase in drug addicts since then. Though, I suppose, correlation is not necessarily causation - but it's a soft science so I'm sticking with it.
I wrote the article for tomorrow. It was a nice and easy one, though it won't seem all that easy to my readers. I made it 'fancy' near the end when I included some code that looks a bit complicated but actually isn't.
whereis ls | awk ' {print $3} '
Yeah I remember many years ago meeting some 19 year old kid who was on disability because they were an addict or alcoholic and I thought that was just ridiculous.
It keeps 'em off the street where they mug you, break into your car, squat in your summer home, steal the copper from your house while you're gone, cut off your catalytic converter, etc...
Though, really, you can't be much of an alcoholic at the age of 19. You just have shitty impulse control, not full blown alcoholism.
I'd make treatment mandatory for those who get disability due to drug/alcohol addiction.
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