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.
Revision:
Heroin addicts commit crimes within Vancouver. Programs that provide free drugs are working to cease the crime rate, not helping the well being of the individuals affected. Addicts will do anything to gain the means to purchasing their drug, from breaking and entering anywhere they can gain access to, robbing innocent civilians, as well as a plethora of other heinous crimes. These acts alienate themselves from those in their life. The “free heroin for addicts” programs merely provides heroin to prevent the crimes they would normally commit in order to get their drug. Although it gives clean heroin and prevents the addicts from using unsanitary needles leading them to hospitals, it does nothing whatsoever to helping the addicts get off the drug indefinitely.
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