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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

62 voluntary spaces gone. 600 people kicked to the back of a weeks-long wait list. Voluntary treatment on demand is a pipe dream, and it's about to get worse, especially for ppl with complex health issues. We have been saying this for years, but wait times are "not something RA officially tracks".

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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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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The Compassionate Intervention Act is a COLONIAL act, designed to reproduce and perpetuate colonial harms. It is a regressive piece of legislation in direct opposition to the UNDRIP and the TRC's 94 calls to action. We need to actively resist and disrupt this example of racist, colonial violence.

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Forced treatment strips Indigenous people of body and mind sovereignty and subjects them to medical experimentation. Alberta has a long legacy of chemical restraint and surveillance of Indigenous bodies (cf Indian Hospitals, Indian Act "mentally deficient Indian" clause); this is no different.

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Forced treatment reproduces the trauma of residential schools and the 60s scoop via the apprehension of Indigenous sons and daughters, the separation of families, and the loss of culture. This is perhaps unsurprising for a government that includes residential school denialists among its ranks...

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Forced treatment seeks to disappear people deemed undesirable by the state. This is consistent with the ONGOING and unrepudiated doctrine of discovery and terra nullius, which views Indigenous people as subhuman and not deserving of human rights, thereby justifying land dispossession and conquest.

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NotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Indigenous people are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the drug toxicity crisis. Racism, coloniality, and structural oppression inherent to the Indian Act and other policies got us here. By doubling down on carceral approaches for substance use, the AB govt reinforces these harms.

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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

Claim #5: "The Alberta model works." Does it, though?

Alberta EMS responses to opioid related events, demonstrating a gradual upward trend since 2018 with the exception of a partial decrease in 2024.

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

Claim #4: Experiences of harm from involuntary care are "anecdotes". Fair, but these harms also appear in the literature. Involuntary treatment may increase the risk of post-tx overdose, and can also seriously damage trust in personal/professional relationships. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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“Grasping at straws,” experiences of Canadian parents using involuntary stabilization for a youth's substance use

In Canada, involuntary stabilization programs are used to apprehend and confine youth who use drugs for the purpose of stabilization, assessment, and …

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

Claim #3: "SCS don't work." Supervised consumption services SAVE LIVES. Try as the Alberta government might to disinform us otherwise via bogus review panels and white papers, the evidence base demonstrating SCS benefits is more robust than available evidence for involuntary care. www.whyscs.ca

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One-page-home - WHY SCS

WHY SCS: Information About Supervised Consumption Services in Canada

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

Claim #2: "Housing First doesn't work." Housing First HOUSES PEOPLE. When the unhoused are as over-represented in our grim drug poisoning stats as they are, housing becomes a critical ingredient for health, recovery, and survival during a toxic drug crisis. mentalhealthcommission.ca/what-we-do/a...

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At Home

At Home Learn More In 2008, the Government of Canada allocated $110 million to the MHCC to undertake a research demonstration project on mental health and

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

Claim #1: "Most people in active addiction don't want treatment." Many PWUD have accessed or tried to access treatment, and 49% of Alberta PWUD in a recent survey would accept it if offered tomorrow. Sadly, access barriers, judgment, and ineffective treatments are common along the way.

PWUD-reported unmet health and social service needs include housing (55%), income support (36%), medical care (25%), basic necessities (23%), mental health care (21%), and drug treatment (14%). 40% were hesitant to access medical care and 27% were denied medical care because they use drugs.

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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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