Live announcement from the Premier about improving mental health and addiction supports. I have no idea what this is about. But I'm worried. youtube.com/live/Q3mp-s_Jh…

“The first correctional centre will be at the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre. The first secure housing and care facility will be on the grounds of the Alouette Correctional Centre (Monarch Homes) in Maple Ridge.”

Eby conflating violent offenders, machetes, drug use.

This is evidence based and not guided by ideology, says the premier during an election campaign. lol

This is nuts. NDP just pulling this shit out of their ass to win votes. “Psychiatric centers in correctional facilities” “Involuntary treatment”

If Kamala is a cop, Eby is a jailer

Here's the straight goods. This is prison by another name. pivotlegal.org/pivot_legal_so….

"Rather than supporting expanded involuntary or carceral treatment, we endorse supports and services that directly meet people’s material needs, built on a framework of consent, capacity, cultural safety, and peer leadership." pivotlegal.org/involuntary_tr…

Involuntary, abstinence based treatment doesn’t work. In the fentanyl era… it kills In this study shared by guyfelicella, it was shown that 96.4% of 1083 patients had relapsed to substance use 2 months after discharge from involuntary treatment 1044/1083 patients returned to

Involuntary treatment is an incredibly dangerous policy/ healthcare solution even when done with a maximum amount of care. Putting these "treatment" facilities inside the existing criminal justice system is a recipe for disaster.

Early web hit on B.C. gov's move to introduce involuntary care for ppl with concurrent addiction, mental illness and brain injury, more to come theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

In light of today's announcement, re-upping this thread from April 2023:

We had better hear a loud and clear denouncement of BC NDP involuntary treatment after all the noise Alberta's NDP Caucus has been making about the UCP these last two years.

Sophia Banks Not just addiction. Anyone with brain damage or mental illness that they don't like.

Read this thread from 🍉 Nurse Ranger 💊 about involuntary treatment #bcpoli

Please read this thread 🧵 by 🍉 Nurse Ranger 💊 where he discusses the substantial scientific evidence showing that not only does involuntary substance use treatment not work… it actually causes harm Instead of building involuntary treatment models, why aren’t provincial

Premier Eby is "weaponizing the crisis, he’s weaponizing the people who we’ve lost to the crisis. We not only know involuntary treatment doesn’t work, it also has negative outcomes in research done around the world." tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/09/16/bc-…

How many times are these cops and politicians going to say “It’s complex, there’s a lot to unpack” as a way of avoiding press questions on the logistics and costs of expanding involuntary care?

there is a solution to the toxic drug crisis 👇 x.com/Ncanuel1/statu…