Streets of Plenty. Inside the World of the Homeless
Description
What is the relationship between addiction and homelessness? Where does personal responsibility fit into the equation? Should street addicts be left to their own devices, or do full-service shelters, legalized heroin dispensaries, and other provisions make for smart urban policy? In search of answers, Misha Klieder has put away his sociology textbooks and opted for real-life experience-spending close to a month sleeping and scavenging in the crime-infested Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada. Beginning as a semi-farcical challenge to standard liberal views of homelessness, Misha's story takes on darker dimensions as he encounters severe health problems and, in an even more ominous turn, becomes a crack and heroin consumer. A startling journey inside urban North America's most intractable social problem.
Runtime
65 min
Subjects
- Decision making (78)
- Welfare recipients (20)
- Power (Social sciences) (152)
- Social work with drug addicts (13)
- Public welfare (48)
- Public health (338)
- Substance abuse (361)
- Compulsive behavior (39)
- Health planning (100)
- Impulse control disorders (49)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2011], c2010
Database
Films on Demand
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