Original

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.

Revised

Vancouver suffers from heroin addicts committing crimes despite the “free heroin for addicts” program efforts to stop them. Addicts are the cause of the large crime rate. Daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships are hard to maintain because addicts are using. Addicted heroin users will do whatever they can to get their hands on the drug. Some of the common crimes committed by addicts are breaking and entering as well as stealing. The “free heroin for addicts” program lacks the ability to help wean addicts off using heroin because the program focuses too much on the crime rates. Providing the drug will keep addicts off the streets, preventing them from committing minor street crimes and away from using up hospital resources. Hospitals become ineffective when caring for addicts. Time and resources are used to treat addicts only to find out they go back to a life of drugs. The “free heroin for addicts” program gives people free heroin in the cleanest way possible which helps crime rates but not its addicts.