Free Heroin to Battle Addiction

Background: Vancouver is a hub for heroin addicts due to the fact that heroin is often imported there.  The city opened a clinic in which they give out free heroin with clean needles to help the addicts live more “normal” lives.  This clinic stops heroin related crimes, such as robberies due to needing money to buy more drugs.  They also benefit through clean needles, meaning less cases of AIDS and other diseases caused by dirty needles.

How I Intend to Use it: I want to use this for a basic overview of what my paper will be about.  This article gives a basic understanding of what is going on in this situation.  The article focuses mostly on the benefits of the heroin clinic but also some of the clear downsides.

Why Doctors are Giving Heroin to Heroin Addicts

Background: This article shows where the idea came from and why it is effective.  It demonstrates that they are using it to wean people off of heroin, since other attempts at cleanses have failed.

How I Intend to Use it: I intend to use this article to give the background of the whole concept in general.  This article showed how it can work and that it has worked before.  It is a good article that can be used to strengthen my whole argument since it touches on many aspects of the concept of giving heroin to heroin addicts.

The Only Place They’ll Inject You With Heroin for Free

Background: The article tells about people that go to this clinic and how it has affected their lives as well as how it can have an impact on the area as a whole.  The clinic gives clean syringes as well as pure heroin.  The theory is that it will decrease the spread of diseases such as Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS.

How I Intend To Use it: I Intend to use this article by showing the effects a free heroin society might have.  This can show why people thought it was a good idea in the first place. I believe this article will be useful because it also gives statistics and how the free heroin compares to other things used for heroin addicts such as methadone clinics.

Vancouver study claims benefits to prescribing heroin to addicts

Background: This article gives facts about what has occurred because of this free heroin initiative.  There is also claims from critics saying that it is a bad idea.  The article provides points and counter points to the whole concept as well as a study on whether or not its working.

How I Intend To Use it: I can use this article to introduce arguments against my point and disprove them.  I can also use it for an explanation about how the system all works.  I can back up my argument using a study from this article.