Some people think that drug addicts should be treated like criminals and sent to jail, while others believe that they should be treated like patients and sent to hospital.Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Nowadays, drug addiction has become a major threat to society; with increasing number of drug addicts, the treatment of the people is a daunting task. Some argue that drug addicts should be dealt with iron hand and should be put behind bars and some aver that they should be treated as patients and should be given necessary healthcare. I concur with the latter view based on facts presented in below paragraphs.

To treat drug addiction, one should understand the reasons leading to such disastrous condition, to name a few: poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and many more. People start taking drugs to come out of depression caused due to social and economical factors and if they are treated like criminals, it would worsen the situation. In contrast, I believe that instead of penalizing drug addicts, the drug traffickers should be penalized. For instance, a research conducted by Nigeria university shows that after implementation of strict laws against sale and smuggling of drugs, the number of drug addicts has dramatically decreased in Africa.

On the other hand, the drug addicts should be looked as patients with empathy and should be provided necessary healthcare to come out from cauldron of distress and crime. Nowadays, government has opened various rehabilitation centres equipped with all the necessary facilities required for the treatment. With patient consent, the treatment is done without any cost and all the patients are motivated to give up the addiction. For instance, an article shows that with increase in rehabilitation centers in Punjab, the problem of drug abuse has rapidly decreased and number of patients in these centres has substantially increased from last decade.

To recapitulate, the problem of drug abuse is rapidly increasing and the drug addicts should be handled with empathy and necessary medical facilities should be provided to support the addicts to come out of the current perilous state.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, look, so, for instance, in contrast, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1639.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 309.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30420711974 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8479479254 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527508090615 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 496.8 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 9.0 2.52805611222 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 45.1302897792 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.583333333 106.682146367 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.75 20.7667163134 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.83333333333 7.06120827912 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344019442184 0.244688304435 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127665280574 0.084324248473 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107670608558 0.0667982634062 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.229225667601 0.151304729494 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673837385644 0.056905535591 118% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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