Involuntary Treatment: Criminalization by another name

This position paper is a response to calls for involuntary treatment in the colonial province of British Columbia.

Rather than supporting expanded involuntary or carceral treatment, we endorse supports and services that directly meet people’s material needs, built on a framework of consent, capacity, cultural safety, and peer leadership.

We call on all levels of government to invest in robust access to voluntary treatment options, including primary care, detox, treatment programs, publicly funded counselling services, residential mental health services, harm reduction programming, safe supply, family programming, culturally affirming options, and treatment modalities that reflect the intersecting identities of all those who seek and/or desire mental health and substance use support and care.

Summary page: https://www.pivotlegal.org/involuntary_treatment_criminalization_by_ano…