>Visible homelessness you are referring to is generally a drug policy issue more than anything. Drug and/or alcohol abuse (not use) is often a symptom of an un

>Visible homelessness you are referring to is generally a drug policy issue more than anything. Drug and/or alcohol abuse (not use) is often a symptom of an underlying condition, typically associated with despair. It's escapism. Despair: the complete loss or absence of hope. I think a lot of people suffer from despair in the US today. I remember in the 1980s, farmers were killing themselves at quite a high rate because of automation and consolidation (big agg) and them losing their family's farms. I think that same thing has caught up with the rest of the population in the last 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_Uni...