For those that are saying the drug addiction isn’t the sufficient cause of his homelessness, my company would hire him for a caregiver role including a place to live half the time at >50k yr starting if it weren’t for that… and not only the drug use itself but from an industrial organizational psychology perspective all of the indicators about his problem solving capabilities, personality traits, etc that are relevant to working professionally… to those that say he’s on the drugs because of the situation… that’s worse when determining his qualifications to do a particular job, not better. It’s all related. Despite the cigarette mention, it’s not one decision that made this guy end up here. It was a series of decisions and absence of decisions.

Now I think this person needs help and all the compassion we can muster but the first step in solving the problem is identifying the problem correctly.