Poverty/Homelessness and Substance Abuse

Baird, A., Campanaro, C., Eisele, J., Hall, T., & Wright, J. (2014). “How Can We Stay Sober?” Homeless Women’s Experience in a Substance Abuse Treatment Center. Society, 51(4), 404–407.

This article will help me examine why homeless people are more likely to relapse and less likely to receive the little help that is offered to them

Brubaker, M. D., & Amatea, E. A. (2013). Barriers and supports to substance abuse service use among homeless adults. Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 34(2), 81. https://doi-org.proxy.mul.missouri.edu/10.1002/j.2161-1874.2013.00017.x

This article gives insight on what treatment options are available. Can relate to Baird & Colleagues (2014).

Shows what treatment is like for homeless people and the disparities they face just because they are homeless

Khan, S., Murray, R. P., & Barnes, G. E. (2002). A structural equation model of the effect of poverty and unemployment on alcohol abuse. Addictive behaviors, 27(3), 405-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4603(01)00181-2

This article shows factors that prove why homeless/people in poverty are more likely to experience substance abuse

Discusses unemployment and social abuse they receive because of their problems. Can connect and support Brubaker & Colleagues (2013) findings.

Lee, J. Y., Kim, W., Brook, J. S., Finch, S. J., & Brook, D. W. (2020). Adolescent Risk and Protective Factors Predicting Triple Trajectories of Substance Use from Adolescence into Adulthood. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 29(2), 403–412. https://doi-org.proxy.mul.missouri.edu/10.1007/s10826-019-01629-9

This article will help[ me further examine factors leading to poverty and its relationship to substance abuse

Includes different factors than most of the other articles such as: family life and involvement, past traumas they have experienced, etc.

Humanizes these people instead of making them seem completely at fault.

Malcolm, B. (2004). EVALUATING SELF-ESTEEM: Evaluating the Effects of Self-Esteem on Substance Abuse among Homeless Men. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 48(3), 39–61.

Much different than other articles. Focuse on men specifically and how their self-esteem is impacted by substance abuse/how it makes them continue on with substance abuse

Gives statistical data comparing men and women and addresses who is more at risk and why

Manhica, H., Straatmann, V. S., Lundin, A., Agardh, E., & Danielsson, A. (2021). Association between poverty exposure during childhood and adolescence, and drug use disorders and drug‐related crimes later in life. Addiction, 116(7), 1747–1756. https://doi-org.proxy.mul.missouri.edu/10.1111/add.15336

This article will help me make a timeline on when in life people are most at risk to develop a substance abuse due to when they experienced poverty or homelessness

Covers people starting being in poverty during childhood, their adolescent years, adulthood, and not at all

Provides facts that people who experience poverty and/or homelessness are in fact more likely to develop a form of substance abuse

Sakai-Bizmark, R., Webber, E. J., Estevez, D., Murillo, M., Marr, E. H., Bedel, L. E. M., Mena, L. A., Felix, J. C. D., & Smith, L. M. (2021). Health care utilization due to substance abuse among homeless and non homeless children and young adults in New York. Psychiatric Services, 72(4), 421–428. https://doi-org.proxy.mul.missouri.edu/10.1176/appi.ps.202000010.

This study compares non homeless and homeless adolescence that are using

This article will help with a debate that homeless people are looked down upon more than non homeless people. can relate to Brubaker & Colleagues (2013) and Khan & Colleagues (2002).

Song, A., Wenzel, S. L., & Cho, Y. (2021). Child Abuse Victimization, Depression, and Substance Use Among Homeless Women: Application of General Strain Theory. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(17/18), 8852–8873. https://doi-org.proxy.mul.missouri.edu/10.1177/0886260519853410

This article is similar to a few others but mainly focuses on the relationship between substance abuse and homelessness/poverty

Will help me support other studies that have been done

Suzanne L. Wenzel, M. Audrey Burnam, Paul Koegel, Sally C. Morton, Angela Miu, Kimberly J. Jinnett, & J. Greer Sullivan. (2001). Access to Inpatient or Residential Substance Abuse Treatment among Homeless Adults with Alcohol or Other Drug Use Disorders. Medical Care, 39(11), 1158–1169.

This article will help me talk about insurance and homeless people's treatment

I will be able to talk about more disparities they face when they actually decide to receive treatment and why that may draw them away from ever seeking help again

Thompson, R., Wall, M., Greenstein, E., Grant, B., & Hasin, D. (2013). Substance-Use Disorders and Poverty as Prospective Predictors of First-Time Homelessness in the United States. American Journal of Public Health. doi:https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301302

This article can help me talk about how likely a person is to develop a substance abuse disorder based off of how long they have been homeless or in poverty.

A little different from other articles, it actually looks into if having a substance abuse is more likely to cause someone to become homeless or in poverty