| Comment | I'm not homeless - very fortunately although I used to work in Glasgow addictions. Some general, but mostly alcohol related.
The main reflection I'd have is that the system is a shambles (pre-2010, too). There's politics and ego involved, and there's a poor sod in the middle of it.
Services are too unitary. A homeless guy probably has problems with X, Y, Z. He needs social care, psychology, plus whatever physical stuff. Instead he maybe gets one 2-week visit if he's *lucky* enough to be in sheltered accomodation.
I work in research now and I get quite existential about it all; we have all these fancy brain scanners and genetic science and (yadda yadda), and there's no money to keep folk off the streets. |
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