Important to remember that the alternative to shooting up is, often, to be cold, and miserable, alone, on the street, with no sleep.
One possibility potentiates the other.
Horrifically, you could even think of drug use as an attempt to adapt to loss of housing.
The backdrop for urban drug use, here in Vancouver, is a profound housing crisis and shortage, and a complete, thoroughgoing failure on the part of multiple levels of government to do anything about it.
Important to remember that the alternative to shooting up is, often, to be cold, and miserable, alone, on the street, with no sleep.
One possibility potentiates the other.
Horrifically, you could even think of drug use as an attempt to adapt to loss of housing.
The backdrop for urban drug use, here in Vancouver, is a profound housing crisis and shortage, and a complete, thoroughgoing failure on the part of multiple levels of government to do anything about it.