Robust Verbs- thesilentbutdeadlycineman

Heroin addicts in Vancouver are stealing money to buy more of the drug. The “free heroin for addicts” program works hard to stop these addicts from committing crimes, which is an uphill battle, to say the least.Heroin users are addicted, and they will do anything to secure more of it, which in turn prevents them from maintaining steady  jobs, interactions, and relationships.  Unfortunately, the program won’t help these users in ending their addiction, as it is only focused on trying to save the city from the rising crime rates . The program does this by instead actually giving free heroin to the addicts in the cleanest way possible. With this action, the users are kept out of the hospitals, where the medical personnel would have trouble dealing with them. While the addicts will unfortunately remain dependent on heroin, the city will have the opportunity to thrive.

2 thoughts on “Robust Verbs- thesilentbutdeadlycineman”

  1. Nice work, SBD. Looking at your subjects and verbs, I see:
    Addicts steal
    Program works
    Users will do anything
    Program won’t help
    . . .
    then the paragraph weakens a bit:
    Program does
    Users are kept
    Addicts will remain
    City will have

    These subject/verb combinations could be stronger:
    Program provides
    Users avoid
    Addicts depend
    City will thrive

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