Insite Doesn’t Lead To Detox

Normally when clinics offer treatment for heroin addicts they try to get them to stop using and become clean. A person couldn’t possibly be treated if they were still using, it would defeat the whole purpose of the treatment. Vancouver thinks the complete opposite. Clinics in Vancouver offer heroin addicts free heroin. The clinics claim that by giving them heroin they are keeping them off the street and keep them from getting bad drugs or AIDs.  The addicts have a choice whether to go to a detox center or not, if not they can get free heroin for life. They are just sustain their addiction. Vancouver sees the treatment more as way to lower the crime rate.

Work cited

“Vancouver Combats Heroin by Giving Its Addicts the Best Smack in the World.” Public Radio International. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2015. <http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world&gt;.