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The evidence shows that housing-first policies applied to the worst cases (chronically homeless single people with addiction) is effective and lowers costs I w
by chongli 7y ago
The evidence shows that housing-first policies applied to the worst cases (chronically homeless single people with addiction) is effective and lowers costs
I would like to dispute that. This WaPo [1] article paints a far less rosy picture.
Addiction is a symptom of mental illness (and in all likelihood may be genetic). Look at the rates of smoking among people with schizophrenia [2], they're much higher than the general population, and the usual purported causes fall flat.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-housed-the-homeless-in-upscale-apartments-it-hasnt-gone-as-planned/2019/04/16/60c8ab9c-5648-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-housed-t...
[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smoking-gun/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smoki...
- tcj_phx 7y agoI really like your link [2]: > A dose-dependent relationship was found between smoking and protection from schizophrenia. This is really interesting. The study found smoking protects against schizophrenia. The blog author skewers later science for completely misrepresenting this study in their review. Nicotine is sort of similar to niacin/niacinamide (vitamin b3), which is probably why it protects against schizophrenia. I recommended niacinamide to a young woman who’d just quit smoking, “again”. She says the vitamin is great, is still taking it 1.5 years later and recommends it to all her coworkers who want to quit smoking. And it calmed down some of her “personalities”.