Addictions doctor says involuntary rehabilitation would do more harm than good
New Brunswick is looking at creating a law that would allow police to force people with an extreme drug addiction into treatment, a controversial measure that would upend a decades-long policy of encouraging only voluntary rehabilitation.
Sara Davidson said the real solution would be for the province and Ottawa to put more money toward housing, with appropriate support services, for people who live on the streets. “They’ve lost their physiological dependence, and when they go back to doing what they did, they’ll often overdose and die. So it’s often a very high-risk time when people leave incarceration or hospitals.”
Austin said his department is researching what other places are doing to deal with the same issue, pointing to Alberta and New York City, which are considering a similar idea. As outlined by Sam Sussman, a professor of psychiatry at Western University, in a 2018 article in the MOJ Addiction Medicine & Therapy journal, with “the general demise of provincial psychiatric hospitals in Canada,” thousands of patients were transferred to general hospital or community care.
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