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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

theijf.org/article/r... “People are desperate. It takes so long to get treatment,” So many desperate for voluntary treatment in AB - we see them daily in the ED, pleading for help... But our govt spends all its time and resources on COMPULSORY treatment make it make sense!

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Recovery Alberta closes Edmonton addiction treatment program, drops nearly 600 people from wait list

Staff at Henwood Treatment Centre were told last week program ending, future of facility uncertain

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 26/08/2026

At its core the Alberta Recovery Model means union-busting, disinformation, private theft of public goods, a police state, and a bait-and-switch of “treatment” to confinement. @brettmckay.bsky.social is following all of it ⬇️ theijf.org/article/reco...

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Recovery Alberta closes Edmonton addiction treatment program, drops nearly 600 people from wait list

Staff at Henwood Treatment Centre were told last week program ending, future of facility uncertain

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HEARTS Alberta @heartsalberta.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“This legislation does not address any of those root causes; instead, it creates a new coercive system enforced by police and courts, the very institutions where First Nations people face the most entrenched racism and documented discrimination.” Same ⚠️ in #AB! www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...

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‘Systemic failure’ found in Sask. forced addiction treatment legislation: First Nations Health Ombudsperson

The First Nations Health Ombudsperson Office (FNHOO) says it has found “systemic failure” in the province’s new involuntary treatment legislation.

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Ginetta Salvalaggio @gsalvalaggio.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It continues to elude me why on earth a health system would build an involuntary system of “care” BEFORE properly resourcing a voluntary one. Actually TAKING AWAY from that voluntary system, however, is egregious.

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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My first thought is that will increase pressure on the emergency departments in Edmonton. #abpoli

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Recovery Alberta is closing the voluntary addiction treatment program at YEG’s Henwood Treatment Centre to secure “compassionate intervention” beds under Alberta’s involuntary treatment plan. Albertans need more voluntary treatment, not fewer options, and they deserve transparency about Henwood.

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When Recovery AB brags about its world class voluntary treatment system, insists it's underused, and that involuntary treatment is the only answer, remember this. 👇👇👇

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 11/03/2026

Here I’m criticizing the Alberta government’s ‘study’ on its own supervised consumption site closures by the merits of its *corruption alone* Someone more qualified should examine its methodology. Knowing this government, I expect it’s very bad. drugdatadecoded.ca/centre-of-re...

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Centre of Recovery Excellence using health information of people who use drugs to undermine their safety

The Alberta government's Crown corporation has published its first study using personal health numbers of people accessing supervised consumption sites. While its findings fail to hold up, it offers ...

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 02/01/2026

“Canada appears to be the country with the highest average rate of involuntary psychiatric detentions in the western world.” Note this is *before* new forced abstinence measures hit full speed in AB and BC. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: Why does Canada have such high rates of forced psychiatric hospitalizations?

We should push our governments to better report on who’s being involuntarily committed and why, and if they’re more often helped or seriously harmed

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Canadian Drug Policy Coalition @candrugpolicy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Marginalized communities are being blamed for crises caused by political choices to underfund healthcare & essential services. Join us on Dec 10 as we confront these escalating threats, strengthen cross-movement solidarity, and share actionable solutions. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Top left corner reads “Webinar,” with the title underneath: “Solidarity Not Silos: The attack on public healthcare.” Behind the text is an image of an emergency sign at a hospital. In the bottom left corner, text reads: “Across Canada, marginalized communities are being blamed for crises caused by political choices to underfund healthcare and other essential services. Join us as we confront these escalating threats, strengthen cross-movement solidarity, and share actionable solutions.” On the right side, event details read: “December 10, 2025 | 2:00 pm ET | 11:00 am PT | Online Registration.” Below the event details are logos for CDPC, Canadian Health Coalition, and Momentum.

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Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A new banner hanging from the high level bridge in Edmonton on this cold December day #yeg #ableg

White banner with black and red words "SCS closures create corpses" hanging from a black steel bridge.

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Corey Ranger @nurseranger.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“The Alberta government has confirmed it will follow through with a longtime pledge to shutter Calgary’s only supervised drug consumption site.” Alberta’s ongoing policy of social murder. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Alberta government to close Calgary’s sole supervised consumption site in 2026 | CBC News

The Alberta government has confirmed it will follow through with a longtime pledge to shutter Calgary’s only supervised drug consumption site at Sheldon Chumir Health Centre, despite criticism from ad...

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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

RIP RAH SCS! Today my love goes out to everyone whose life was saved at the RHA SCS. To their families. To SCS staff. To those who fought to have it opened. 💜 I sent my anger and outrage to a heartless government that does not care if people who use drugs die 💔 #ABpoli

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 30/11/2025

Reminder that Edmonton AND Calgary police used public resources to hold town halls + other events to steer business communities & other stakeholders in favour of UCP drug policy. The specified timeline for this campaign was “before the May 2023 election.” drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-poli...

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"Before May election": Alberta police chiefs organized support for UCP campaign

Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police built a "Coalition of the Willing" to conduct a public advocacy campaign supporting United Conservative Party drug policy with an explicit timeframe "before the...

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

"While the new clinic may be helpful to people open to treatment, it’s not going to be a favoured destination for those who aren’t — especially if there is any hint that the clinic might act as a gateway to push people into involuntary treatment facilities." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

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Keith Gerein: UCP ideological myopia costs Edmonton another safe consumption site, at the worst possible time

Alberta's UCP government has an ongoing campaign against supervised drug consumption sites and the latest victim is at Edmonton's Royal Alex.

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Folks, we’re not just a bunch of outlier weirdos calling out forced treatment. Here is another mainstream organization saying the same thing. We don’t want to have any involvement in locking ppl up when we have no reason to believe it will help. csam-smca.org/wp-content/u...

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 26/11/2025

We Refuse: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care is now public. @hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.

A raised fist, clenched in power. Text reads: "WE REFUSE: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care. A joint statement and call to action from Harm Reduction Nurses Association and Doctors for Safer Drug Policy."

Below that are logos for HRNA and DSDP.

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📣📣📣 We cannot be silent. Push back against carceral solutions.

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Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

“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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The Lovejoy Trap: Fascism Masquerading As Care

Protecting children from danger: it’s one of the most virtuous aims we can think of. Children are seen as innocent, adorable, and helpless. Want to raise the stakes in your screenplay? Put a child in ...

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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.

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Bar chart showing the monthly counts of drug poisoning deaths in Alberta from January 2016 to June 2025. The chart shows a steady increase over time, with deaths rising sharply around mid-2020 and peaking in several months between 2021 and 2025, reaching highs around 80–90 deaths per month.

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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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.

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Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🗓️ 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...

Event graphic for "Fighting Copaganda Under Authoritarianism: How to Advance Narratives That Undermine Authoritarianism & Increase Solidarity," taking place place on October 15, 3-4 PM ET, virtual, with Andrea J. Ritchie, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Dean Spade. The event information is in black text on a background of a collage of a thick red pain mark, tape, cutouts of a hand writing, an eye with electricity coming out of it, and a crossed-out mouth, as well as yellow and black scribbles.

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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-....

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Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP @stephen-murray.com · 15/09/2025

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.

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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 19/08/2025

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

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

"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...

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On 'Ruining Downtown'

Safety, addictions and housing solutions

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 17/09/2025

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

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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. 🧵

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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?

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Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP @stephen-murray.com · 31/08/2025

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.

Remember that when politicians come to your IOAD event that most of the drug policy approaches that have been done in the name of "ending" overdose have just made the problem worse.
1. Drug seizures - claimed to lower drug use, but we know the opposite is true.
2. Criminalization and incarceration - often framed as
"saving people" by locking them up, but this only lowers tolerance and increases overdose risk at reentry. Add to that the barriers of a criminal record-family separation, housing, employment, healthcare-and you set people up for more chaotic use.
3. Coerced, forced, or involuntary treatment - for the same reasons. In the name of "saving people," we statistically increase their risk of overdose.

4. Reducing opioid prescribing - removing regulated opioids created a vacuum filled by fentanyl. This has killed hundreds of thousands and harmed pain patients who are now pushed to the illicit market or toward suicide.
5. Abstinence-based treatment and recovery - people in treatment are still rarely taught about overdose prevention or the risk of returning to use. Talking about it is seen as
"triggering" or "enabling." The result: so many die within weeks or months of discharge.
So what are solutions that could reduce overdose? Harm reductionists have been screaming these ideas from the rooftops for decades. Providing a regulated supply (not just for people with OUD, as is often the pitch of safe supply efforts). Ending criminalization. Opening overdose prevention centers. Getting police out of pain management decisions between a doctor and patient. Removing barriers to medication access, methadone in particular. Improving mental health care. Building a more kind and just society, one that makes it safe for people to use drugs around one another so that overdose can be spotted and reversed.
Anyway... lots to think about. I miss my friends. Let's do better.

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 22/08/2025

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

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 22/08/2025

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

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 22/08/2025

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

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 21/08/2025

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

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 21/08/2025

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

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 21/08/2025

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.

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 21/08/2025

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

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 21/08/2025

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

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 21/08/2025

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.

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