Vancouver continues to struggle with large numbers of heroin addicts committing crimes to support their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program takes preventative measures to stop the addicts, but heroin addicts have a hard time maintaining otherwise simple daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships. Addicts will break and enter, as well as steal, for their addiction truly causes them to go to extreme limits. The “free heroin for addicts” program won’t help to ween these addicts off using heroin. The program’s intentions are to conceal the severity of rising crime rates in the city. Providing addicts with drugs keeps them off the streets, which naturally reduces the chances of them committing minor street crimes. Enforcing the program will reduce the number of addicts that use unsanitary needles and drugs, thereby clearing space in hospitals for other important health issues. Giving people free heroin in the cleanest way possible may fix the city, but it will not fix the addiction that these people face.