How to Cope With Being Homeless (Real Examples)07 Dec
Two examples below
When Stephen Thomas was growing up in a Washington neighborhood, and was still in school, he got addicted to drugs. Starting with marijuana, he went on to alcohol, PCP, hash, cigarettes and acid when he was only 13. After graduated from high school, he got addicted to cocaine.
During the next 30 years he went through five jobs which were paying him $50,000 to $80,000 a year. He was evicted from eleven apartments and lost his wife and child and distanced himself from family and friends and then found himself on the streets, where he lived for a year on a bench, eating at soup kitchens and depending on hand-outs.
Finally one day a a doctor on a homeless health care van helped him out, sent him to Samaritans Inn where he went through a drug and recovery program, and was finally clean. He is now an advocate for homeless people, a speaker, member and chairman of many programs which help the homeless.
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