Heroin and the War On Drugs The 1960’s was a time when violence in the cities began to form expeditiously due to the great amount of heroin addicts that stormed these cities in search for money to waste on these drugs. Politicians were searching for new ways to stop these addicts from obtaining the heroin and stopping the violence in which they brought to the cities. The laws that were sent out were not meant to aid these addicts, but rather as an act of “punishment, and deterrence”(New York Times). Heroin use has done nothing but defaced the human population because the use of heroin is causing “more deaths than car crashes and violent crimes”(New York Times); although, heroin cases did go down for significant amount of time, the use and
