For awhile I worked part time in a big retail store here in Anchorage.   Our regular customers were over the river and through the woods most of the year by Friday night.   We called Friday night "Tweaker Night."   The druggies just piled in looking for something expensive and easily fenced to steal; we spent Friday nights dealing almost exclusively with shoplifters.   This town has an amazing number of druggies and an amazing number of thieves.   The two are definitely related.