Heroin Leads To Crime

Giving the addicts free heroin stops them from committing crime

Heroin is a very addictive and dangerous drug. This drug is now flooding the streets of Vancouver and they are trying to get rid of it. Vancouver decided to give heroin addicts free heroin in hopes that the drug crime rate will lower. The people over at Insite claim that “If you give these people doses of heroin every day and keep them comfortable and keep them docile and keep the sort of demons of heroin addiction at bay, then those people are much less likely to end up in an alley, dead with a needle in their arm, or much less likely to sell themselves sexually for money to buy drugs, or much less likely to break into somebody’s car to steal something, or to shoplift or to strong-arm rob or to whatever. So the harm that they can cause to themselves and society is reduced if you simply give them the drug” (Campbell). Through out the city drug related crimes have become a problem. Addicts will do everything and anything to obtain their next fix. “The use of illegal drugs is often associated with murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny/theft, serious motor vehicle offenses with dangerous consequences, arson and hate crimes” (NCADD). The users become dependent on the drug. All the money they earn goes to heroin and nothing else, which leads to them ending up living in the streets. For those addicts that are in those situations are now able to go to Insite and get heroin so now they can use their money and time doing something else. Now that they don’t have to look on the streets for drugs the crime rate in Vancouver will hopefully lower

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;.

“Drugs and Crime.” NCADD. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 May 2015. <https://ncadd.org/learn-about-drugs/drugs-and-crime>.