Alberta introduces legislation enabling forced treatment of drug users - LiveWire Calgary
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The Government of Alberta has introduced through Bill 53, the Compassionate Intervention Act, the first-in-Canada legislation to force drug users into treatment and recovery programs. The aim of the legislation is to ensure that prolific drug users who have a demonstrated risk of causing harm to themselves or others, are placed into either secure or […]
  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
    5·
    2 days ago

    Let’s be clear. This is detention of “undesirables” without due process.

    Just like what Trump is doing.

    It’s unconstitutional. It’s illegal. It’s inhumane, unjustifiable, sadistic, and most of all it’s INCREDIBLY evil.

  • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
    7·
    2 days ago

    Classic conservative governing — opting for reactionary, authoritarian solutions to problems they themselves created through deleting all of the existing preventative solutions that were 10x more effective.

    Also, in the CBC article about it, there’s this line: “a patient won’t be able to refuse medications that the commission has decided they will take to treat their addiction.” How the hell does that jive with the right to decide over all medical decisions that Smith recently amended into Alberta’s constitution? I find it pretty strange that they keep writing legislation restricting who this right applies to.

  • Archangel@lemm.ee
    13·
    3 days ago

    You know what happens when you force someone to quit drugs, when they don’t want to? They start using again, as soon as they’re released from treatment.

    So, unless the plan is to hold these people indefinitely…which is a violation of their human rights…this plan is not going to work.