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 […]
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.
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.