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Originally Posted by craftbeerdad
We can't force people in a free society to do anything but clearly mental health needs more investment. Sadly in this country while our healthcare might look envious to other countries, we have a massive underfunding in mental health (this is a massive category- ptsd, depression, etc.), drug addiction, Alzheimer's, and dementia amongst other growing areas. Wish I could be optimistic but since health care was downloaded onto the provinces and has a higher inflation rate naturally than CPI, it's always underinvested.
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They can actually. Portugal has an excellent program for addicts where they essentially force them into treatment by decree of a special court. Only to be released once it's proven by a panel that they can safely become members of society again. In my opinion letting addicts walk around the downtown core in a haze is about the same as letting a senior dementia patient walk around the downtown core unattended. Most of these people aren't even aware that they're unwell.
There's a lot we can improve on with healthcare in this country, mental health and drug addiction would be a great start. The fact is progressive policies like safe injection sites, handing out needles and tents and other similar programs do absolutely nothing to solve the problem and leave our downtown core in the state it's in.
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