Housing for homeless alcoholics can reduce costs to taxpayers

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 16:21 in Health & Medicine

Providing housing and support services for homeless alcoholics costs taxpayers less than leaving them on the street, where taxpayer money goes towards police and emergency health care. Stable housing also results in reduced drinking among homeless alcoholics, according to a Seattle-based study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

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