HACKER Q&A
📣 jelliclesfarm

Will the homeless with drug addiction go cold turkey during covid19?


the withdrawals must be horrific. why isnt there any news or plan/protocol about this? in SF alone, we have hundreds on the streets.


  👤 DoreenMichele Accepted Answer ✓
First, I don't think most homeless are heavy users. It takes money to be a heavy drug user. I've known heavy drug users who went through like $10k in drugs in one year. That's more than some homeless people live on all year.

So I suspect the "hard core junkies trope" is somewhat overblown.

Second, they are having much more serious problems, like difficulty getting food:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-19-an...

It's quite ugly at the moment and I don't know what we can do about it.


👤 jelliclesfarm
There are pictures of homeless people still on the streets of San Francisco ..and they are ‘exempt’ from social distancing as per London Breed, the mayor of SF.

I don’t understand what that means? They are ‘on their own’ ..to do what? Die?


👤 rapphil
I was discussing this with my wife today. But we are assuming that the supply will stop, right? Will it really stop though?