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As with any survey or most research really, it’s the sample the determines the finding. Homelessness is not easy to define precisely. Drug addiction, setting aside the fact that surveys are self reported, is a bit more cut and dried but from your response it’s not clear if alcohol is included, or drug history. Like if someone did some bad shrooms or had a bad acid trip and wound up homeless would that person be in the 2/3rds?


What would a bad trip that makes you homeless look like? Like you burnt your house down or something.

The number of people that became homeless due to a bad trip may be non-zero but it had to be really close. That's just not a realistic scenario.


You were renting and had a job, then had a bad trip that crushed your intelligence/mental health, causing you to get laid off and evicted.


Basically the Ted Kazinsky scenario. Or the guy who thought he was a glass of orange juice. Or Jim from Taxi. Many such cases.




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