> I will recommend the book The truth about addiction and recovery if you want to better understand what happened. It suggests that giving people meaningful work and a means to succeed is a viable means of treatment for addiction.

I really appreciate you sharing this. As you can guess, I stumbled into this.

> I will note that I know a fair amount about homelessness and I think the angle that "homeless people are all junkies and crazies" is way over hyped.

Would you be able to share the geographic location for the homeless you studied?

What was the segment and proportion of actual junkies to crazies to on-bad-luck-but-can-be-helped you noticed?

What I have noticed in SF and NYC is a certain number of them are indeed mentally unstable. The reason why I am yet to expand beyond a second person is because I was stabbed by a schizophrenic who was convinced I was the Jonah who had been tormenting him in his sleep for years. The police have asked me to work thorough certain agencies and NGOs since then. Unfortunately it's impossible to make any progress through them as far as having them work on my farm is concerned. They only want donations and cannot work with my farm idea.