When you talk to people who are trying to find a way to get/stay high on their vices, they often only say "I need help" and when you start going "here's a bus pass, here's food and clothes, let's brainstorm where you can spend the night" you can see the impatience in them because they don't want THAT help, they need MONEY to get DRUNK like NOW. Even when I worked at the homeless shelter I had a crackhead bring me tools he stole from his employer and beg me to buy them off him for "any amount, a great deal" and when I said no, he offered to sell me his foodstamps. Next he flashed a (fake) gun to try to intimidate me and I said gtfo. He ran around telling everyone this same thing until eventually he got money for that rock. Pretty much every week a woman would offer sex for money or to "come home with me" because there's a real variety of homeless woman that stays housed by "going home" with random men.
