re: Are food banks "enablers" of drug addicts??

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I am told the only way to really get an addict to reform is make them stand completely on their own.

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I think the first mistake is thinking that a single "method" will solve every addict's problems. Perhaps there are some people that really need to be cut off. But once one is an addict... do they have enough self-control to do that?

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No question in my mind that most homeless are addicts of one kind or another.

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I think most of them suffer from mental illness. I am sure more than a few are also on drugs.