Addicts have a hard time getting through their day to day lives. Heroin is a dangerous and addictive drug, and once a person becomes addicted, there is very little to do for them. Addicts struggle to maintain jobs with steady incomes, because of the fact they are using. They also have a difficult time keeping relationships and making them last. When it comes to heroin, or any drug really, once a person becomes addicted, they will do whatever they have to do to get their hands on the drug. These people commit crimes like stealing or breaking and entering. For addicts, they will do as much as steal from a stranger on the street, to stealing from their own family in the safety of their own home. What Vancouver is doing is not supposed to ween these people off of using heroin, they know that is not going to happen. The point of what this city is trying to accomplish is really to save their city. They want to get these addicts off the street so they stop committing petty street crimes and keep them out of the hospital as well. These people use bad drugs or unsanitary needles and find themselves in the hospital facing hospital bills they just can not afford to pay. They allow these people to receive free heroin and receive it in the cleanest way possible. This is not going to fix the addiction that these people face, but it will help fix the city that they live in.
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Title: Struggles of an Addict
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Struggles of an Addict is nice, taddo, because it expresses sympathy for a person out of control. Maybe that’s all you want to accomplish. But if you wanted also to advance the idea that Vancouver is accomplishing something by not merely imprisoning them, would you write a different title?
Your paragraph makes a lovely argument, taddo. I have no problem whatsoever with your paragraph. Except that it is a paragraph, not an essay. If you have done the research to offer some illustrations, data, or cost projections about the amount of money, time, and resources devoted to “addressing” the problems addicts pose to the city, this would be the essay in which to show off all that fancy research. If you haven’t, your comments will sound very thin.
This is a causal argument, so you need to describe or compare the causes or effects of a situation.
Your approach here appears to be to claim this chain:
People take drugs, THEREFORE they become addicted, THEREFORE they are helpless, THEREFORE they turn to crime to support their habits, AND they clog the emergency rooms, THEREFORE Vancouver has to limit the damage they do.
SO: The city gives them drugs in clean needles, THEREFORE the addicts don’t get sick, AND they don’t commit crimes.
With all of those claims, couldn’t you find research material to support your argument about addicts, addiction, crime, sickness, incarceration, communicable diseases, costs to society?
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