Sentence examples for ill addicted from inspiring English sources

Police violence appeared to be a matter of concern only to Albuquerque's underclass: those who are mentally ill, addicted to drugs, Native American, or Hispanic and poor.

In his 70s and 80s, Mr. Baker was chairman of the Argus Community, a South Bronx nonprofit group that serves people who are mentally ill, addicted or homeless.

Most of the long-term homeless in rich countries are seriously mentally ill, addicted or both.Estimates from several rich countries put the economic cost of mental illness at 3-4% of GDP.

What medical condition could be so serious it could not be treated by the medical staff at the Century Regional Detention Facility, which houses 2,200 inmates, many of them mentally ill, addicted or in poor health?

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood, one of the poorest areas in all of Canada, is notorious for its homeless population, many of whom are mentally ill, addicted to hard drugs, or both.

Now gentrifying around the edges, then it was a morass of the mentally ill, addicts, sex workers, drug dealers and the just plain homeless poor.

The gathering, every two months, is a sometimes awkward, always wrenching effort to reconnect homeless, mentally ill addicts and their families.

It resulted, critics argued, in criminalisation of the young, the mentally ill, addicts and the otherwise different by the back door.

Put these statistics together, and it seems like Cornwall is a county of mentally ill addicts with nowhere to go.

To its credit, starting in 2014, Obama's historic new health plan will mandate insurers for the first time ever to treat addicts the way they treat victims of other diseases, putting an end to decades in which desperately ill addicts were denied life-and-death treatment.

In other words, you know you're swimming in Jerry Stahl soup when the characters are mentally ill addicts committing both petty and major crimes, the political conspiracies are rampant, and you're laughing despite your discomfort over how close to home Jerry's satire hits.