Fight Drugs with Drugs

Sometimes the best way to deal with a drug problem is making the drug easier to get.  The problem with heroin addiction is not just the fact that people are getting high.  The problem is that an addict will do anything to get high.  Providing heroin completely eradicates this problem.  Simply make the heroin free and obtainable and the addict will no longer commit a crime or take another drastic measure to get high, he will just get his fix and continue on with his life, being more productive than he would if he had to find heroin.  It seems obvious, that giving out drugs to help junkies is not the moral or right thing to do and that it is not helping anyone, that it is making the junkies drug problem worse.  However, while people stay in the Free Heroin Clinic and never quit, there are people who kick their addiction because of the clinic.  Free Heroin Clinics do not make addictions worse, but they can also make people completely kick their addiction.

The problem with heroin addiction is that all the addicts that try to quit do not actually want to quit.  Stopping a drug that makes them feel incredible everyday does not sound very appealing.  However, there are people that have kicked their addiction through going to the clinic.  A man who goes by the name of Johan spoke about how he went to the clinic everyday until he hated his life.  “If you get dope for free, the only problem is you’re addicted to the dope.” says Johan about the clinic, “All that’s left when everything else is taken care of is the question: do I really want to keep on using this? (Roes)”  The clinic helped Johan kick heroin and helps other addicts get their lives together and becoming functioning members of society, junkie or not.

Drugs are a very delicate thing to deal with because they have the ability to snowball out of control from one try and leave someone doing desperate things to feed their addiction.  Although it seems wrong to feed someone else’s addiction, it can be the best option for them and for all the people their addiction can affect.  While giving someone drugs does not seem like the moral thing to do to help them, if they were not receiving these drugs they would out potentially harming others to get their fix, which could potentially harm them.  Free Heroin Clinics are not immoral, they are helpful to the addicts who would otherwise be hurting themselves or others in order to get a fix.

Roes, Thijs. “Only in the Netherlands Do Addicts Complain About Free Government Heroin | VICE News.” VICE News RSS. Vice News, 6 May 2014. Web. 04 May 2015.