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A much better article on the topic and contains perspectives: https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/04/02/recovery-alberta-to-take-charge-of-mental-health-services-in-alberta/
What I can grasp is that the recovery model doesn’t focus on “wrap-around care”. You can lock someone in a room until their withdrawals pass, but if you don’t address the root issues (usually poverty or lack of mental illness support) of why they started to begin with, the cycle will just repeat.
From the article:
I mean yeah... Without addressing housing issues, health appointment wait times and social services, people will not use less drugs. I 100% agree with that. But these have nothing to do with the way services for addictions are provided. What is a social worker supposed to do about your housing, if rent prices are through the roof? Notice how none of these articles have any experts taking about the services being provided or actual evidence of their effectiveness (or lack thereof). It's politically-aligned representatives, talking shit about the other side, without any rational arguments. They don't give a shit about addicts, lol. They give ea shit about arguing with the other side and "winning".
"Recovery model" is not the issue. Politicians are the issue.
No. You can't. That is not what "recovery model" or work with addictions in modern day Canada looks like. Nobody is getting locked anywhere, people die if you do that because you can't just stop cold turkey alcohol or opiates. Literally die.
Don't get me wrong. There's a lot of shit that needs to be fixed in mental health services, but ReCoVeRy MoDeL BaD is just a political slogan. So yeah. Maybe don't take your mental health education from the guys that just want to stoke hate so they can get your vote.