The patients at the Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction are here after failing all treatment options at B.C. hospitals, with more than two thirds also having become violent either with health care staff or while committing a crime on the street. All of them are battling severe addictions to drugs.
And more than half of the 100 or so patients are here against their will after being certified under British Columbia’s civil Mental Health Act.
It is the best option available to solve the “homeless crisis.”
