There is a huge problem in Vancouver with heroin addicts committing crimes to support their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to stop the addicts. The problem is that there is a large crime rate due to the addicts. It is obvious that addicts have a hard time getting through their day to day lives. Daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships are hard to maintain because of the fact that they are using. By heroin users being addicted, they will do whatever they have to do to get their hands on the drug. The types of crimes committed are those of breaking and entering as well as stealing. There are no limits to where they will go to retrieve this drug so that they can feed their addiction. The problem with this program is that it won’t help to ween these addicts off using heroin. It is only trying to save the city from rising crime rates that they’re up to. By providing the drug, these addicts will be off the streets, which in turn will prevent them from committing minor street crimes. This will also keep the heroin users out of the hospital. It is pointless that the hospitals have to deal with people that want to use bad drugs or unsanitary needles and find themselves being unable to afford hospital bills and hard to cope without the drug. This program gives people free heroin in the cleanest way possible. This will in turn fix the city  but not the addiction that these people face.

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In Vancouver, heroin addicts are committing crimes in order to fund their addictions, and in turn, increasing the crime rate in the area. To counteract this, the “free heroin for addicts” program arose to stop addicts from committing crimes. Heroin addicts struggle through most day to day activities as a result of their habit– jobs, interactions, and relationships become more challenging for them. Stealing and breaking and entering are among various crimes that heroin addicts commit in order to fuel their habit; the line is often crossed to feed their addiction. However, despite the seemingly considerate nature of the program, the primary goal is to decrease the crime rate that drug related crimes have caused. The program seeks to provide drugs to addicts, thereby preventing them from committing crimes in order to acquire the drugs. The intended result is, aside from preventing crimes, to keep addicts out of hospitals. By wasting hospital beds on addicts that are choosing to put themselves in potential danger, it is taking away from individuals that genuinely need them. While the city’s crime rate will benefit from the program, the drug use rate will not.