Description
Homelessness is a situation of extreme social exclusion related to lack of or difficulties in accessing housing. One of the main risk factors for increasing the vulnerability of the health of people in this situation is drug use, especially alcohol.
On the other hand, people with problems associated with drug use who find themselves in situations of social exclusion usually present forms of residential exclusion that aggravate their symptomatology.
Given the exclusively biomedical tradition of health care, despite the consideration of health as biopsychosocial, the more social aspects of health and its determinants are not usually considered in the scientific or popular literature when dealing with cases of drug dependence in specialised services.
This book aims to provide a social perspective on a growing problem in our society and how the co-authors, all professionals in direct care from different disciplines and fields, approach the phenomenon of the intersection between homelessness and drug dependence.