B.C.’s Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction in Coquitlam offers an alternative but controversial vision for treatment
The patients at the Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction are here after failing all treatment options at B.C. hospitals, with more than two thirds also having become violent either with health care staff or while committing a crime on the street. All of them are battling severe addictions to drugs.
“The patients who haven’t done well anywhere else in the province are coming here and the vast majority of them are getting better,” Nick Mathew, Red Fish’s medical director, said during a media tour of the facility Wednesday. In fact, the $130-million Red Fish facility is located on the sprawling grounds of the infamous Riverview Hospital, which first opened just over a century ago and, in the 1990s, began deinstitutionalizing its 900 beds.
“So we’re taking people that have failed everywhere else and we’re bringing them here and what we do have is specialization of resources.”
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