Often times the ways that homeless people survive is by coping in unhealthy ways. In \u201cVoices of the Street\u201d the chapter \u201cRecovery Issues\u201d discusses the relationships with homeless people and addictions. One homeless man shares, \u201chomelessness and drug abuse and alcoholism go hand in hand\u201d (144). Many of the homeless people interviewed share how, \u201cdrugs and alcohol took away the pain of their experiences and helped pass the time\u201d (151). Homeless people are trying to survive and their means of surviving are limited. They are acting as a result of their desperate circumstance. It is their circumstance that influences their behavior. What would you do in order to survive the traumatic experience of being homeless?
\nAlso, why do you think \u201cpoverty is so invisible?\u201d In what ways have the homeless become invisible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Often times the ways that homeless people survive is by coping in unhealthy ways. In \u201cVoices of the Street\u201d the chapter \u201cRecovery Issues\u201d discusses the relationships with homeless people and addictions. One homeless man shares, \u201chomelessness and drug abuse and alcoholism go hand in hand\u201d (144). Many of the homeless people interviewed share how, \u201cdrugs … Continue reading Coping<\/span>