The Alberta government is considering introducing a law that would broaden the circumstances under which people with severe drug addictions could be placed into treatment without their consent.
The legislation would be the first involuntary treatment law in Canada to target addiction specifically. Some jurisdictions, including Alberta, already use mental-health law to push people into drug treatment without court orders in exceptionally severe situations. But otherwise adult drug users can refuse help.
We make it very easy for people to slowly kill themselves on our streets while they in turn wreak havoc on our quality of life.
The arguments that emptied the asylums onto our streets are made in the Globe article. Why they are seen as humane is beyond me.
WARMINGTON: Used syringes in east-end Toronto park just waiting to jab somebody
Is the story that Toronto’s so-called safe injection of hard drugs policy means addicts leave behind used syringes in city parks or is it that no one from the city seems to come to take them away?
