For my paper I decided to write about Vancouver’s growing problem with heroin. Vancouver is giving addicts the best heroin on earth for free as well as clean needles, supervision, and assistance. The city believes that what they are doing is actually helping these addicts problem but that it is also lowering the rate of crimes that these addicts out do in order to get the drugs. By supplying the clean heroin, they are keeping them off the streets and preventing many hospital visits.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world
Background: This article gives general information about what is happening in Vancouver as well as things that are being provided with the clinics.
How It Will Be Used: I will use these general details of the issue so I can get a better understanding of what is going on.
Background: This article covers the cause of many addicts overdoses are due to another drug that is being sold as heroin.
How It Will Be Used: I will use this to show the clinics are keeping addicts from running into this other drug in the streets.
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1926160,00.html
Background: This article displays where this idea manifested. It also discusses the effects of weaning people off of heroin.
How It Will Be Used: I will use this article to show how it can work and that it has worked before.
http://sciencenordic.com/heroin-clinics-improve-addicts-lives
Background: This article shows that the heroin clinics have lower dropout rates and that many positive things that have come from them.
How It Will Be Used: I can use this to show the positive side of giving heroin to addicts.
https://www.drugs.com/illicit/heroin.html
Background: This article explains how heroin is about 2-3 times more potent than morphine. It also provides information on how it is taken and what the effects are.
How It Will Be Used: This shows the idea of providing heroin in a safe way and with safe tools.
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