Heroin use leads to crime.

Heroin use does in most cases lead to crime but for reasons you might not think. When people start using heroin it begins to be the only thing they worry about. All of their money goes to heroin. Instead of paying for rent or their electric bill they’ll pay for their heroin first. Sooner than later these people run out of money and have to begin committing crimes in order to pay for heroin, that’s why heroin use ends up leading to crime. Using heroin everyday doesn’t make you a criminal, stealing things and robbing people makes you a criminal. The clinics that are being established in Vancouver are taking the crime part out of heroin use. These addicts that resort to stealing things to sell, robbing people, and even selling their bodies to get their fix now have the opportunity to stop that part of their life. 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. 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. By providing heroin for free to these addicts, Vancouver is stopping the problem with what is causing the problem.

Work Cited

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