Originally Posted by
WishingWell 
When are people really, truly going to understand that by the 3rd stage of addiction their brains are DAMAGED. Choosing to live on the streets when living with brain damage is not like a secretary choosing to go buy a new blouse.
I wonder sometimes when education is finally going to set in? If not on an addiction board - where?
There are already outreach workers who try to get homeless people off of the streets and into shelters. Sometimes these workers encounter resistance when trying to help someone relocate to a homeless shelter. Let's say you're an outreach worker, and a homeless person fights you, tries to beat you and spits on you, in your efforts to help them off the streets. That sounds like a choice to me.