Researchers have pointed out that alcoholism and child prostitution among Aboriginals in Hsiulin are especially serious problems. This is related to the Truku's loss of land and the breakdown of their social structure.
就曾有學者研究指出，秀林鄉原住民的酗酒、雛妓問題特別嚴重，這和太魯閣族人土地流失、社會結構的失落有關。