Under the Compassionate Intervention Act, people with substance use disorder can be forced to take any prescription medication without consent. It doesn't matter if they have decisional capacity. While doctors are involved, ultimately a lawyer gets to decide what the treatment order will be. #ableg

“The Lovejoy Trap is a tool people use to construct their identities in a way that makes them appear morally virtuous. It’s also frighteningly effective at packaging extreme inhumanity as being necessary ‘for the children.’” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...

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Mandatory recovery treatment doesn't solve homelessness, building affordable housing does. I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THIS .....

When the Alberta government claims that deaths from the toxic drug crisis are decreasing or stabilizing, take a look at this graph — it tells a very different story. Involuntary care won’t fix this. Compassion, harm reduction, on-demand voluntary treatment options, and real supports will.

9 years of advocating and fighting for the rights of people who use drugs .. not once did they acknowledge families who have tried forced treatment within my community. I have no words .. just a lot of anger and sadness at the harm this will cause so many folks.

Implementation pushed back to 2027 (originally promised for Spring 2026). Guess it’s been harder than expected to ring fence at-capacity voluntary treatment infrastructure for unproven, forced care.

🗓️ Oct. 15 at 3-4 PM ET online: Please join us for a discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @lewispants.bsky.social, and @deanspade.bsky.social! Register: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...

A heavy conversation today about the "Compassionate Care" Act on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Cross Country Checkup. A couple of claims raised our eyebrows, and some fact checking is in order. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-....

It’s absolute bullshit to say you can’t help people until they stop using. We can and do work on safety, housing, health, and dignity while people use.

The Drug war was built for control, not care. Now history is repeating itself. 🧵

"Who is served by narratives that spread fear and even dehumanize people who are struggling, narratives that play on citizens’ deepest fears and desire for safety?" On 'Ruining Downtown' open.substack.com/pub/civicgoo...

Local woman wakes up, reminds everyone that safer communities are tied more to healthcare, housing and public services and less to police, makes oatmeal.

We are still overwhelmed by disability application forms, and thought it was time to share why austerity measures like this 👇 are a hard-to-digest recipe for involuntary treatment. 🧵

Please read this excellent thread from a long time Edmontonian. Involuntary treatment is an attempt to disappear what makes us uncomfortable. As healthcare professionals, we have a choice: Are we complicit in this violence? Or do we interrupt it?

When politicians show up at your #ioad event… remind them that almost every policy approach to overdose has made it worse and that’s by design.

Reject reactionary drug policy: Canada must not continue to follow the United States’ path of punitive and moralistic policy choices. B.C. must not continue emulate the regressive course taken by Alberta. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction

Address the root causes of the crisis: regulate the drug supply. Invest in housing, mental health services, and voluntary addiction treatment. Recommit to the decriminalization of substance possession for personal use. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction

End political interference in evidence-based health care and prescribing practices. #bcpoli #ioad

Evidence-based solutions exist. We demand: 1) Legalization and regulation of the entire drug supply. 2) Ready access to detox and treatment services. 3) An expanded decriminalization “pilot.” 4) Abundant public housing for all income levels. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction

Rather than adding to bloated police budgets and failed drug war tactics, governments should address the social determinants of health.

Homelessness is on the rise in BC, and so too are deaths among people experiencing homelessness. More criminalization, displacement, and incarceration will not stop the deaths.

Criminalization of drug use is killing people. It forces people to use their whole supply quickly and alone, and it entrenches stigma. We oppose criminalization of people who use drugs. This includes forced abstinence policies and the criminalization of homelessness. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #ioad

For over a century, we have refused to regulate drug markets with anything other than ineffective law enforcement approaches. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #ioad #harmreduction

Beginning with the Opium Act of 1908, we have pushed the drug trade underground, which fuels contamination and empowers organized crime. It makes all of us, whether we use drugs or not, less safe.

We've been kind of busy this summer doing unpaid overtime work to protect disabled patients from Dani's latest structural violence. (Cutting income -> eviction -> manufactured excuse to lock ppl up...) It's been quiet here as a result, but we have LOTS to say. Stay tuned.

Grieving families know that forcing people into treatment is the opposite of compassion. Stop the Harm. No to coerced care! #ioad @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social

“Criminalization is central to enabling, enacting, and enforcing authoritarian regimes and Right-wing agendas. It is literally HOW they operate and are legitimized, and how they manufacture consent…Interrupting criminalization must therefore be at the core of our response." — @dreanyc123.bsky.social

SCOOP Alberta's "Compassionate Intervention" drug jails will be located near the existing Spyhill jail in Calgary and near the Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. Eighty-two companies have expressed interest in participating in the $180 million procurement process. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

Looking forward to this event! Showing up in solidarity, because carceral logics in healthcare are harming the people we love.

🗓️ Save the date! Mark your calendars for October 28-29 to join our Beyond Do No Harm network, Disability Project at the Transgender Law Center, and @commjusticeexch.bsky.social for this 2-day virtual convening, Abolition Means *All* Carceral Spaces.

Greetings to our American colleagues! Who are facing the same things we are, but on a larger scale most likely: www.asam.org/news/detail/...

Two things can be true at once: 1) The government should never be in control of our access to any meds, including psych meds. 2) Psych meds have damaged & harmed many people in devastating ways. That is not a conspiracy theory from the government. That is our reality as psychiatric survivors.

Hey ya'll -- we finally made it here! Hoping to connect with mad / mentally ill / disabled / neurodivergent communities & other folks aligned with building anti-carceral community mental health collectives ❤️‍🔥🌿 Check out some of our work here: linktr.ee/projectlets #abolition #disabilityjustice

Some people don't feel as close to this as they ought to. Most of us are just a bad break or two away from winding up on the streets, and addiction & mental health crises can affect anyone. They're gutting services and rendering more of us disposable, and there's a carceral disposal system waiting.

Trump's order to erase, banish, incarcerate anyone who can't pay North America's skyrocketing rents. Deep criminalization of homeless & drug users. This is what fascism looks like. Jurisdictions to the north try variations of bits of this, dream of the whole regime www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This isn't too far off what @daniellesmithab.bsky.social is doing with her "Compassionate Care Facilities (jails). #abpoli Trump signs executive order making it easier to remove homeless people from streets www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...

I am very glad to hear the federal minister of health say that forced treatment does not work. Now all the provincial health ministers gotta listen. @crackdownpod.bsky.social will have an ep on this out in a few days. cfjctoday.com/2025/06/03/h...

This is a laughable consent process. Patients, including those with full capacity, will be asked if they consent, but then they can't refuse??? Just one of many concerns about Bill 53. Educate yourself. Educate others. Advocate for better.

One lawyer reviews an online application... That's all it takes to apprehend and hold someone for 72 hours??? Dangerous and unjust. People will absolutely end up in the emergency department in complex withdrawal.

Healthcare workers play a key role in shaping health policy. This bill not only harms people who use drugs; it directly impacts healthcare workers across the province and threatens our ability to provide safe care and maintain trusted relationships.

"A PRISON. IS A PRISON. IS A PRISON." Via street.cats.yyc on IG.

it works for governments. medical incarceration is a government policy for removing the human evidence of government failure, disappearing people harmed by government's refusal to legislate needed systemic change, which is the only solution for systemic violence read these stories please

Louder for those in the back: New is NOT always better, and something is NOT always better than nothing. @bonnierae.bsky.social canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/new-not-alwa...

Treatment doesn't need to be forced - it just needs to be better! These are some of the common reasons people get turned away when they actively ask for help.