Heroin addicts in Vancouver committing crimes to support their habit is a huge problem. Heroin users will do whatever they have to do to get their hands on the drug like breaking and entering, robbing, or even violent action. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to decrease the crime rate. The problem with this program is that it won’t help to ween these addicts off using heroin, its only mission is to save the city from a high crime rate. By providing the drug, these addicts will be off the streets so they are not committing crimes, as well as out of hospitals because of the sterile needles they provide. The “free heroin for addicts” program gives addicts their fix in the cleanest way possible for free but this will only fix the high crime rate and help feed to these addicts terrible addiction.