A study by UC Berkeley researchers tracked 218 homeless young people over six years; in that time 11 died largely due to suicide or substance abuseYoung people living on the streets of San Francisco have a mortality rate that is more than 10 times higher than those who have a area to live,largely because of suicide or substance abuse, according to a study from the UC Berkeley school of public health. “This is a phenomenon of our greater and greater acceptance of the poverty of children, and ” said Dr Colette “Coco” Auerswald,who led the six-year study that was published online on Thursday in the open-access journal PeerJ. “I was born in the 60s, grew up in the 70s. There were men, and alcoholics,on the street in Washington DC. They were suffering. But there weren’t legions of young people on the street.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com