Heroin use leads to crime.

When heroin controls your life it is hard to maintain a job to support your habit, so many heroin addicts turn to crime in order to get their heroin. When you get addicted to heroin you’ll do whatever you have to do to keep using which is usually committing crimes to get money. These addicts resort to stealing things to sell, robbing people, and even selling their bodies all to get their fix. In Vancouver the use of heroin is increasing and so are the crime rates. In an effort to reduce crime rates the heroin clinics offer free heroin to give the addicts a guaranteed fix. Giving free heroin to addicts takes away the need for them to commit crimes to get money. Without having to worry about getting heroin or committing a crime it opens the door for the addicts to get their lives back and get a real job instead of doing things like petty theft or prostitution.

Work Cited

“Drugs and Crime.” NCADD. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2015. https://ncadd.org/learn-about-drugs/drugs-and-crime