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Curious about the pathology of homelessness and chronic sleep deprivation.

• xrd 8y ago
  The woman who founded Right To Dream Too (http://right2dreamtoo.blogspot.com/ http://right2dreamtoo.blogspot.com/) gave a presentation at my work. I mentioned that I thought it looked like many homeless were dealing with drug addictions and if they had services to support them. My perception is that people look much more stressed out than the homeless people I used to see in Portland twenty years ago. She remarked that people who are dealing with chronic sleeplessness often look like what you would see someone who is withdrawing from drug use, and that made me think. It makes you wonder if more/less policing has an impact on the ability of people to find safe places to sleep, and if not, how that leads to an interminable cycle of destruction to their bodies which is maybe worse than drug use. I wish I knew the facts on that speculation.