My research paper will be based around Vancouver and how they are helping their heroin addicts with providing them with heroin. It seems very counterintuitive to simply hand out heroin to those that are heroin addicts. There is obviously a reason that they are doing this and for some reason they feel as though this will in return help the addicts in one way or another. It seems insane to give users their drug of choice, but clinics in Vancouver must have a different idea.

Vancouver Combats Heroin

Background: Article provided general information about what was going on in Vancouver and the details of the clinics and what was being provided and how.

How I Used It: I used this article as the basis of information. It give me the general details of the topic so I could understand what was going on.

The Only Place They’ll Inject You With Free Heroin

Background: Explains why Vancouver is doing what they are doing. Discusses why it works and also includes argument viewpoints.

How I Used It: I used this as an insight to arguments on this topic. There are a lot of opposing viewpoints and different opinions on the clinics and what they are doing there.

Prescription Heroin for Vancouver Addicts

Background: The article talks about how the clinics began and how they had to get approved to conduct them. It includes a lot of statistics and factual based information.

How I Used It: The article helped me in understanding some of the background on how the clinics got started, but I did not incorporate this information too much in my paper because I felt it did not fit. Although, parts of the article talk about how the addicts who were getting heroin were showing improvements and I used that information.

Vancouver Addicts Receive Prescription Heroin

Background: This article talked about what they are doing in Vancouver and how many people they have done it with. It also talks about trials that took place because of this situation. It also talked about how often addicts could receive a dosage

How I Used It: I used this because of how they gave them the heroin and how many times they were able to receive it.