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No new addiction

Your article on homelessness was very interesting ("Addicted to the streets," July 29). You are right—we need to change the way we go about giving aid. We should give people not just food, money, and free housing but spiritual counseling and incentives so they can get over their addictions and get jobs and care for themselves so they can earn the money to buy a house and a car. We should not just give them new addictions or fund the ones they already have.
—Ian Kelley, 13; Sharpsburg, Ga.

As a physician who has worked with the homeless for almost 20 years, I was appalled by "Addicted to the streets." I volunteer at SOME, mentioned in your article, where compassionate social workers, nurses, psychiatrists, and addictions counselors pride themselves on their comprehensive and integrated approach to moving people out of homelessness. Your reporter implied that his spiritual needs were ignored, yet if he had asked at the front desk he would have received a Twelve-Step version of the New Testament.
—John Umhau; Potomac, Md.

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August 26, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 33

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