Around me a large portion are formerly employed who got injured, and then were prescribed pain relievers that turned out to be what I think were legal opioids.

Around me a large portion are formerly employed who got injured, and then were prescribed pain relievers that turned out to be what I think were legal opioids. Then they couldn't get them when the prescription was done, and they started using others' prescription. Then people started selling extra doses from their prescriptions on the street. From there, the not so legal stuff came. All the way up that ladder to homeless heroin addict. It's just kind of a ladder they all climbed to the strongest, least legally available variant of what started out as simple pain relief prescriptions. One really underhanded thing that's happened around here is that there are these new apartment buildings that are "affordable". (But not really.) But if you're a homeless vet, there is a provision where they are obliged to give you a place in these kinds of buildings. One caveat though, it's not open to substance abusers. Which most of the homeless vets are. To add insult to injury, a lot of them got on the ladder because they were prescribed pain relievers by the VA. Now a lot are differently abled because of being wounded. Hooked on opioids due to climbing up the ladder I was talking about. And homeless to boot. It's sad.