(Old)

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 is suffering from crimes committed by heroin addicts. “Free Heroin for Addicts” is a program determined to lower crime rates in the city. Addicts fiend daily for their fix and will do whatever they can to get the money needed to buy heroin. Heroin addicts steal and use violence to mend their pain versus taking the time to repair their relationships and interactions with people in their life. Addicts are like athletes; both will do whatever it takes to reach their respective peaks.

Yet, the program is only a bandaid for the citizens of Vancouver. There’s no trying to fix the addicts; there’s no systemic change. The program clears the streets of needles and fiends, lowering crime rates. Vancouver’s program will also keep heroin users out of the hospital. It is pointless that hospitals have to deal with people who want to use harmful drugs or unsanitary needles, find themselves unable to afford hospital bills, and find it hard to cope without heroin. No longer will pregnant mothers and non-coherent heroin addicts cohabitate in the hospital. A clean resource to provide heroin will rid the streets of crime, but no progress will happen until successful systemic change produces reformed drug rehabilitation programs.