Giving heroin addicts heroin won’t improve their lives because you are just giving into their addiction.
The heroin clinics that are already in practice have seen significant results in improving the lives of those that are taking part in the treatment. Giving the heroin addicts heroin gets their addiction under control because it satisfies their needs. They get their fix and go on with their lives. It is done in a safe way with clean needles and under the supervision of nurses to reduce the risk of injury or the transfer of disease like HIV.
These heroin clinics help to improve the lives of the addicts because they no longer have to go and commit crimes to support their habit. According to the Danish National Board of Health, more than just reducing crime rate is happening because of these clinics. The addicts have started to get their lives back. The number of addicts that have found a permanent home has increased by 30 percent. Alcohol abuse and abuse of drugs like valium has gone down by 50 percent among the addicts.
Giving heroin addicts heroin is helping the addicts focus more on their own lives instead of heroin. A post-doc in anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Katrine Schepelern Johansen, says that some of the users are having better contact with their families and even have enough energy to take care of their own physically illnesses. So by giving into their addiction these clinics are actually helping to improve the lives of heroin addicts.
Work Cited
Wojcik, Jeppe. “Heroin Clinics Improve Addicts’ Lives.” Sciencenordic.com. N.p., 1 May 2012. Web. 29 Mar. 2015. http://sciencenordic.com/heroin-clinics-improve-addicts-lives
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Feedback requested. I’m not sure if I did this assignment correctly, I feel like I just restated what I said previously in the definition essay and I’m not sure if that’s what we were supposed to do in this assignment or not.
Feedback provided. —DSH
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Well, mopar, it does look very much as if you merely tacked a sentence at the top of your essay that was supposed to represent the best argument against your own. If your “opponents” were this weak, your position wouldn’t be controversial at all. Are you sure there isn’t an eloquent and well-reasoned document somewhere that objects to the whole program on grounds that are compelling and hard to ignore?
The only source you cite states quite categorically that the clinics improve lives. Where’s the source that states categorically that they’re an unethical and even immoral fraud perpetrated on a very vulnerable population in the guise of “care”? Surely some responsible critic thinks its unconscionable to actual inject desperate human citizens with toxic, dangerous drugs that have no known therapeutic benefit? Someone who insists we try harder to “cure” the addiction instead of just managing and prolonging it?
You haven’t worked hard enough to find the best representative of the contrary point of view, mopar. A strong rebuttal essay requires a strong contradiction.
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