Recent cases of violence across Canada demonstrate a clear need to treat mental illness early instead of waiting until a serious crime happens, says an executive with the Canadian Mental Health Association.
"We want to be able to intervene early and actually prevent crisis -- including a crisis where violence is present -- from ever happening in the first place."
"I think there's a lot of promise with respect to a lot of the policies and things that have been done, but what we've seen is an entrenchment to violence and individuals who are resistant to the services right now,"he said on April 13. "It's really important in the current context, where there have been a number of violent incidents, to absolutely not immediately draw the conclusion that mental illness is a factor that needs to be thoroughly investigated and only then might there be a claim to be made," he said.
It found that B.C.'s non-violent crime severity index score went down by 7.55 per cent in 2021, while its violent index score went up by 4.32 per cent. Butler also cited a 2009 study published by the American Medical Association titled 'Schizophrenia, Substance Abuse, and Violent Crime' that found the association between schizophrenia and violent crime is minimal unless the patient is also diagnosed as also having a substance-use disorder, increasing the risk of violence fourfold.
Such a service would offer "no wrong door" access to mental-health and substance-use care that accepts walk-ins, as well as people being transported by ambulance, fire and police, the report said.
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