About progressive approaches in treating mental illness and addiction in the community, is the progress.
British Columbia will be opening secure facilities to provide involuntary care under the Mental Health Act for those with severe addictions who are mentally ill and have sustained a brain injury, the premier announced Sunday just days ahead of the start of a provincial election campaign.
David Eby pledged a re-elected NDP would change the law in the next legislative session to “provide clarity and ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive care when they are unable to seek it themselves.”
Eby told a news conference in Vancouver that involuntary help would be aimed at people struggling with overlapping addictions, mental illness, and brain injury concerns who are not able to ask for help for themselves.
“Eby told a news conference in Vancouver that involuntary help would be aimed at people struggling with overlapping addictions, mental illness, (conservative or libertarian leanings) and brain injury concerns…..” Parentheses and their content added.
Will they include treatment for trans insanity?
Eby calls it gender reassignment surgery.
Assuming it’s not some bait & switch strictly to garner votes, everything old is new again!
I’m old enough to remember when deinstitutionalization kicked these same people to the curb without a thought to any life-skills training or support.
So now, let’s welcome reinstitutionalization! As the circle of life speeds up, they’ll be back on the street in maybe 3-5 years. Progress!!
Will conservatism be considered a mental illness?
We’ll have to read the fine print before getting on board.
How long until it’s change the law to “ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive MAID when they are unable to seek it themselves” ?
Good intentions. It lasts for a while, then some assholes twists it to their design. Look at the restriction on speech. Started out with good intentions.
And ends with a road to Hell, paved with the same intentions, good or otherwise. It is always amazing that self proclaimed liberals have no problem with unbridled tyranny when they are given the opportunity.
“…good intentions.” Don’t make me laugh.
WTF? No treatment in the community? I thought letting people die on the streets was the preferred way to treat mental illness. I thought letting them destroy the lives of those around them including innocent bystanders was a good thing. The nut houses used to be bursting at the seams because so many people used to be bat shit crazy. You know what? They still are.
If true then a massive U-turn.
Well Steve, you win the thread subject.
The election is underway in BC, and Flip Flop McEby has now about faced on THREE ITEMS in a short week, this being the latest. For seven years, the ENDP has encouraged the street madness and defended their precious mentally ill, drug addicted clientele to wreak havoc upon the citizenry.
Now in an election race, the comrades NOW realize it’s a huge problem and “Will fix it”!
You can tell when a failing government is losing, when they shed their policies they religiously defended, in short order, it must be election time.
1. Carbon Tax about face
2. Hard Drugs handed out to junkies about face
3. Free vending machine Drug kits, pipes and paraphernalia about face.
4. Involuntary incarceration of druggies, about face. The great civil rights crusader flipped! Again!
Now, I agree with the moves, but, they are Conservative policy, which the ENDP have instituted and defended until losing an election race. Their internal polling must have been awful.
How many other ENDP policies are they not serious about? Answer, I DON’T CARE. VOTE CONSERVATIVE!
Funny how the walk-back is happening in a number of places including Oregon. The following link is interesting because neither the interviewer nor the reporter directly addresses the increase in deaths following drug decriminalization. In fact the interviewer references Vancouver as though it was a superior place for drug laws (“a beacon of harm reduction”). NPR as we know is a beacon of conservative thought …
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1240892448/why-oregons-groundbreaking-drug-decriminalization-experiment-is-coming-to-an-end
“I went to Vancouver, British Columbia, which is – kind of has long been a sort of beacon of harm reduction. But – and so there’s all sorts of practices there that are backed by science and public health researchers, like having safe injection sites, like having drug users who are involved in policy-making, decriminalizing drugs. They did that in 2022. But that doesn’t mean that the streets are, you know, sunny, and everybody has a good middle-class job, and there’s no, you know, problems. I mean, there’s going to be a collision on the street because people are poor, because people are living in desperate circumstances, because people have mental health issues, all sorts of things. And when you throw drugs into that mix, it’s a very difficult encounter.”
Vancouver, having learned its lesson, is also back-paddling so NPR will need a new beacon.
I don’t believe the apologists have learned anything yet. Despite the continued, ongoing deaths, abuse, the growing street disorder and homelessness (self-caused by their self-abuse), the advocates remain undeterred to achieve their Nirvana of free everything and treating the junkies and losers as heroes and without fault.
The ENDP has created a whole industry around the madness, their unionized socialist friends if they take any steps to unwind it in any way.
It’s been a waste of hundreds of millions, without any achievements to brag about. The ENDP knows this, but has become scared because now kids are taking advantage and suffering accordingly. There’s been a well publicized death of a 13 year old girl from “safe drugs” and another group of parents are suing the government, because the drugs were “safe”. This scares the bejeezuz out of the ENDP, since families vote and kids are still somewhat sacred.
The ENDP has been a massive failure, but have done well until recently hiding their ineptness, thanks to their media friends.
And our vaunted constitutionalists say…?
Canada’s foundational “good government”, is a sinister oxymoron that you have the “right” to have horseback stomped into you.
What, is there an election approaching?
I left BC in ’76…
Nice place to Vacation…(in the Shushwap or North thereof).
I Grew up in the lower MAOland…Richmond. It was nice then but now, if ya don’t speak Mandarin/Cantonese, you’re considered an outsider.
Regardless of its physical beauty, there is absolutely Nothing that could entice me to return (to the lower MAOland that is), Nothing.
I get it Steaky. We might have crossed paths as kids, I fished out of Steveston, with relatives there. It’s a vastly different place now, 5 decades later.
I stay because I’m retired, have a grandchild and can drive an hour and a half to Port Renfrew in the Vert, and sit on the Oceanside deck on a warm September Sunday, having a brew and gnoshing on fresh seafood with my lady. All the while, there’s good hope that the commies will be tossed out for a no-nonsense Conservative government come mid-October.
Yes, it would be hard to move here afresh, the costs of relocation to here are silly.