Vancouver heroin addicts can get drugs for free, but they just can’t seem to stop stealing instead. Maintaining jobs, relationships, and friendships is nearly impossible for these addicts whose lives are perpetuated by this cycle of crime. Heroin has put blinders on its users, leading them to do anything to get their next dose. Addicts will steal and break and enter, even though a program called “free heroin for addicts” was initiated to end this needless crime. Although the program needs improvements to help addicts safely onto the road to recovery, it will put a hold on the cites skyrocketing crime rates. Medical grade heroin replacing sketchy and unsanitary means of getting a high will clean up the streets of crime and drug addicts.