misscherrylikesthediscourse:

Giving homeless people MONEY instead of FOOD can save their lives this winter, shelters cost money, being able to sit in McDonald’s and nurse a coke for a couple hours to warm up costs money, often accessing public toilets (whether it’s to use them, wash up or just to be out of the wind) costs money. 

Just give homeless people cash, just do it, no excuses, no whining about “enabling their drug habits”, if you have money to spare, give it and possibly save someone from literally freezing to death. 

Also, going cold turkey off a lot of drugs WILL kill you, or at least bring you very close to it. I’m not saying that everyone who’s homeless is on drugs, but I am saying that if someone is on drugs, they kinda need to stay that way if they don’t have the medical support and circumstances necessary to not die of withdrawal.