Mental Illness and Long-term Homeless in LA

 

• Chronically Homeless: The prevalence of mental illness or substance abuse is higher among the chronically homeless, often exceeding 75%. 
• The prevalence is particularly high among the chronically homeless, over 75 percent of whom have substance abuse or a severe mental illness (Kuhn and Culhane 1998; Poulin et al. 2010; Ellen Lockard Edens, Mares, and Rosenheck 2011). Powerful drugs such as P2P methamphetamine induce psychosis, the symptoms of which are sometimes confused with schizophrenia.

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/homelessness-california-causes-and-policy-considerations#:~:text=There%20are%20also%20differences%20in,homeless%20population%20in%20California%20today.