" #Involuntarycare may seem like a solution to the problem of people who can’t care for themselves. But it’s horrendously expensive, and it’s not supported by research as effective." #comment #opinion #mentalillness #mentalhealth #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
Here's Why Involuntary Care Won't Work for Most People
We need a total rethink of our failed approach to drugs and homelessness. #addiction #involuntarycare #homelessness #drugs #bcpoli
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"Two independent provincial officers in #BritishColumbia have separately criticized a recent decision to release guidelines aimed at increasing #involuntarycare among #youth." #BC #Canada www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...
"Some of the #addiction #health workers the [ #BC NDP government] says it is trying to protect objected Monday, pledging to refuse to implement the “violent expansion of #involuntarytreatment.”" #healthcare #involuntarycare #BritishColumbia #Canada www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-...
"The parents of a #Kamloops, #BC, teen who has overdosed four times in less than two months are desperate to get their daughter into #treatment. But she is refusing help, and now the parents are pleading for changes to legislation around #involuntarycare" www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
#BritishColumbia Human Rights Commissioner says the #BC government takes a #stigma-based approach to the #opioidcrisis that is “a violation” of #humanrights, focusing on #criminaljustice and #involuntarycare rather than #evidence-based action cheknews.ca/b-c-human-ri...
"Mayor Rob Douglas...would like to see the current hospital be used as an #addictions treatment facility, with space for people with severe #mentalhealth challenges in need of #involuntarycare. ...This proposal isn’t popular with some community members." #CowichanValley cheknews.ca/petition-for...
" #NorthCowichan Mayor Rob Douglas is proposing turning the current Cowichan District hospital, that will close in Spring 2027...as an #addictions treatment facility, with space for people with severe #mentalhealth challenges in need of #involuntarycare." #VancouverIsland cheknews.ca/north-cowich...
“There is no excuse for people to be in our community that are conducting themselves this way, and I don’t care how good the lawyer is, there is no argument that can be made to justify that.” #criminaljustice #involuntarycare #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada
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"Basically, [ #involuntarycare is] care and treatment for people experiencing #mentalillness so severe that it impacts the safety of themselves or those around them, and they cannot — or will not — be treated voluntarily" #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The province frames #InvoluntaryCare as a "life-saving power" to protect individuals and the public. But critics question its efficacy and impact on #CivilLiberties, creating a tense debate over how best to care for B.C.'s most #VulnerablePeople.
CBC News
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Advocates have long raised concerns about the practice.
The #CanadianMentalHealthAssociation worries about relying on #InvoluntaryCare when voluntary services "have not kept up with demand." It cites a lack of evidence for its effectiveness in treating #substance-use #disorders.
#Healthcare
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First, what is #InvoluntaryCare?
It is defined as care and treatment for people experiencing a #MentalIllness so severe that it impacts their own #safety or the safety of others, and who cannot—or will not—be treated on a voluntary basis.
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🇨🇦 B.C. EXPANDING #INVOLUNTARY-CARE. WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT WORK? 🇨🇦
Premier #DavidEby recently announced over 100 new #InvoluntaryCare beds.
Now debate around treatment for severe #MentalHealth and #addiction is growing.
CBC News explains the controversial system.
#BCPoli #BChealth
" #BC Premier David Eby has announced #Surrey and #PrinceGeorge will receive new #involuntarycare facilities as part of a plan by the province to expand treatment for #mentalhealth and #addictions." youtu.be/-aeS3LP5a40
"Premier David Eby came prepared with announcements as he spoke to leaders of #BritishColumbia 's local governments, promising more #involuntarycare facilities for those with severe #mentalillness and #addictions" #BC #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"Alouette Homes is... for people living with complex #mentalhealth disorders who need long-term therapeutic care in a supportive home-like environment" #involuntarycare #BritishColumbia #BC #Canada www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...
At its core, the drug debate is philosophical: Should policy try to eliminate drug use, or should it accept that some people will use and aim to make using safer?
#drugcrisis #drugs #federalelections #harmreduction #involuntarycare #mentalhealth
" #BritishColumbia clinicians have received new guidance about #involuntarycare for adults, including a directive that it cannot be used to prevent harmful "risk-taking" by people who use #drugs whose behaviour is not related to mental impairment" #mentalhealth #BC #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bcpoli B.C. doctors get new guidance on #involuntarycare for #drugusers. It can't be used to prevent harmful "risk-taking" by someone who isn't impaired by a mental disorder. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/b-c-d... via @CdnPressNews
#InvoluntaryCare does not work. Care, support, and basic needs met is what works. #Eby #bcpoli #BC #HarmReduction
#involuntarycare does not work! In fact it causes more harm and trauma. Please look at the plentiful research to find the solution, because this isn’t fucking it. We need trauma-informed care and safe substance alternatives until people are ready to stop. #bc #eby #alberta #smith #canpoli #cdnpoli
In light of the news out of Alberta, here's @andreawoo.bsky.social and my deep dive into the political pressure behind the push for more #involuntarycare or coerced treatment and the lack of science underpinning its use. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
Why force involuntary care when we don’t have enough beds for voluntary care? Please sign the refusal campaign if you work in health care: s56.ca #InvoluntaryCare #ForcedCare #DrugPolicy
3 minutes of your time please. Watch, share and sign.
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"There is zero evidence from any high-quality study that #involuntarycare decreases rates of #substanceuse, decreases harms or deaths from #overdose, or reduces rates of #homelessness or public drug use" #comment #opinion #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland #BC www.nanaimobulletin.com/opinion/opin...
‘A plan to make a plan’: Experts speak out on B.C.’s #InvoluntaryCare proposal #bcpoli By @maddidell.bsky.social
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