2. Why did Neen use drugs (primarily crack cocaine) to "self-medicate" or "treat" her trauma from both childhood and adult sexual abuse?

Answer 2: Neen turns to drug abuse because she believes that there is nothing else she can do to cope with the traumas of being homeless and the traumatic experiences she has had. It is possible to draw the conclusion that it is a technique of fleeing reality and self-medicating the pain that it causes. A means of blocking off the agony caused by the abuses. It is just what she needed to make the load of that agony a little bit easier to pain.