Documents obtained by the Globe and Mail suggest the legislation could give police, and family members or legal guardians of drug users, sweeping rights to refer adults and youth to involuntary treatment
The Alberta government is considering introducing a law that would broaden the circumstances under which people with severe drug addictions could be placed into treatment without their consent.
Colin Aitchison, a spokesperson for Alberta Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Nicholas Milliken, said an expansion of involuntary treatment is still under consideration. The government has “explored a variety of options, including the potential development of a Compassionate Intervention Act,” he said in a statement. “As of this time, no decisions have been made by the Government of Alberta.
The allowable periods of confinement in the province, and whether they could be extended, was “to be determined” at the time. The government’s strategy includes building nine mental-health and addiction recovery communities. Only one of them, in Red Deer, is completed. It has yet to open. Leaders in other parts of Canada, including Toronto and British Columbia, are also debating expanding involuntary treatment for complex mental-health and addictions issues, despite controversy around the practice. But none have introduced new laws to do so.
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