SOC309Y1 Lecture : Lecture #9 - Nov 18.docx
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Dealing with people with problems with drug and alcohol problems. Two stories- reflecting accumulation of 12 years of stories. Grew up in a rural ontario, small. Cassandra - alone and scared in community. Her father was a local opp officer. Family violence was common in her panhandling home. Both went to a shelter for youth. At age 12, cassandra smoked pot with friends some older, some same age. Her sister acted as her mother" but her sister ran away when cassandra was 14 years old. She & star panhandled; smoked pot together, in between people on the street. 1 year later cassandra started beaten and hospitalized. Cassandra ran away to join her sister smoking crack with her boyfriend (age 15) at 12 set on particular path. Age 16 she injected crack for the. Age 20 she tested positive for hiv, was couch-surfing housing insecure, form of homelessness hepatitis c too. Single man with a mortgage on new house.
